MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Same tune, different message
As events in the US have shown, there’s nothing new about the the right wing subverting radical and popular music for its own ends, says OSKAR COX JENSEN
Bob Marley
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
AMID the serious criminal offences committed during the recent breach of the US Capitol, one prominent trespass was against good taste.
Numerous commentators, including original I Three singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, took exception to Trump supporters singing Bob Marley classics Three Little Birds and One Love.
The sound of white nationalists appropriating Afro-Caribbean music — though all too familiar in the Britain of the 1970s and ’80s — was considered both offensive and surprising.
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