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Melodramatics Theatre Company’s latest show, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” had Risley Theatre’s sold-out crowds buzzing with laughter.
The Slope Day Programming Board announced COIN as the Slope Day 2023 headliner, with Snakehips and Coco & Clair Clair also performing.
Cornell a capella groups foster community among artists and promote cultural representation in music.
On Feb. 21, Hippo Campus released their new single “Kick in the Teeth,” a quick bite of a song that is less than three minutes, yet feels too long. The single comes in anticipation of the indie rock band’s new EP Wasteland, which will be released on April 14. “Kick in the Teeth” feels lazier than the band’s usual summer sound; could it be Hippo Campus ready to try a new style, or a sign that they’ve run out of creative steam? “Kick in the Teeth” sounds like it was written in a class on how to write a song — I got sick of it after only getting through the first half of this article.
This new album represents both Smith’s survival from their dark past and their newfound feeling of acceptance and self-love.
The Ithaca Rotary Club raised money for a school bomb shelter in Lviv, Ukraine on Sunday with a bomb shelter
On Nov. 10 at 4:30 p.m., Dr. Scot Brown, professor in African American studies at UCLA, will present his work in a discussion titled “The Rise and Decline of Black Bands in Popular Music in the 1970s.”
This event will be held in partnership with the Department of Music, Institute for African Development, Department of History, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection and the African Studies and Research Center. Taking place in the Africana Research and Studies Center, Brown will be discussing his research on the confounding factors that contributed to the decline of the popularity of Black music throughout the 1980s. “African American bands’ experiences in popular music were not driven solely by shifting consumer tastes,” Brown said. “But also by underlying contextual and structural issues such as the Black entrepreneurial and professional activism and cultural politics of race.”
Brown’s research has spanned over nearly two decades and has produced papers, books and music pieces under the alias Scotronixx.
A Cornell University a cappella group, The Class Notes, has made history by becoming the first ever Ivy League a cappella group to advance to ICCA Finals.
Cornell’s a capella groups enjoyed their first live concerts since 2019 throughout this November, celebrating a return to community with song.
Young Thug popularized abstract rap that flows like a stream of consciousness, sometimes incoherent, often frivolous, but enjoyable nonetheless.