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New World Symphonies

by Matthew Sherrill,

Listening for the future of music

The Ghosts in the Machine

by Liz Pelly,

Spotify’s plot against musicians

From “Standards,” which appeared in the November 1991 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The more I think about…

Lo-fi Beats for Work or Study

by Hari Kunzru,

I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees.…

Digging in the Crates

by Hari Kunzru,

For some months I’ve been living in Rome, up on the hill called the Gianicolo, which slopes down to the western bank of the Tiber. In antiquity it was the…

Bent Notes

by Amit Chaudhuri,

From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. 1. What is a raga? To answer this question we must first acquire a sense of…

Some Notes on Song

by John Berger,

The rhythms of listening

Sub Sub Pop

by Glenn McDonald,

From a list of 1,266 musical genres compiled by Glenn McDonald, creator of everynoise.com, which seeks to produce a comprehensive music-classification system.