Music History
18 Threads
Before Afrobeat became popularized, before the invention of Fuji Music, Nigerians had a soothing form of rhythm they called, Apala and it was pioneered by a man called, Haruna Isho...
We listen to about 20 hours of music per week on average, not including adverts. But what if you couldn't listen to your favourite songs whenever and wherever you wanted? Here's...
So now I'm wondering if there was a link between Decca and The Process Church 🤔 https://t.co/toVupgMk5o
Thread on Chordophone Instruments in West African History https://t.co/zYeNE4Umrz
How Lemmy and Motorhead Gave Metal Its Umlaut. "I thought it looked mean," late icon once said of infamous diacritic https://t.co/8pbnCr8wyb https://t.co/jz66dJY8ja
Gustav Mahler was born today in 1860 in Kalischt, now Kalište in the Czech Republic, quite close to where Sigmund Freud had been born four years earlier. Despite being neighbours...
Franz Liszt was the world's first Rockstar. Women put his cigarette butts in their cleavage. Men stood by with looks of jealousy. So, what was so special about this piano legend...
Around 2:45 hours of some extraordinary, some rare music from masters long forgotten and few immortal ones—from north to south India , recorded some time in early 1950s. https://t...
In 1930, the union of American singers spent the equivalent of $10m on a campaign to stop people from listening to recorded music and watching movies with sound. 1/ https://t.co...
If you wish to collaborate for the effort made to inform, you can do it even with 1 dollar a month. You can do it through PayPal Ortizcomputer@gmail.com Via patreon https://t.c...
The Story of the Epic Battle Between King Sunny Ade and Chief Bolarinwa Abioro. A Thread Retweet to educate someone https://t.co/mWE1GKxthy
Originating from the camel drivers of north-western India, Tappa, a wild and offbeat musical form, travelled to the east to rise to popularity. Its journey, spanning across four ce...
“Yeah, so basically every hippie rock band was the product of a military/intelligence operation run out of Laurel Canyon. And he has an even darker book about serial killers and pe...
A Brief History of Music These Days Isn't Any Good 🧵
For a period of five to six years in the late 1960s, the Imperial Tobacco Company hosted a music competition named after their Simla brand of menthol cigarettes. On #WorldMusicDay...
A beginner's guide to classical music. Thread: https://t.co/ppixliRmVz
cat playing the bagpipes, france, 15th century https://t.co/UGZVJMDmOY
@cswarketatora @Jonathan_Leon27 @nypost "Bowie’s secret trip of 1973 across the USSR from Vladivostok to Moscow " https://t.co/wvEeiahLo6 https://t.co/ihrXYfN3pV