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Nolan Gasser and The Music Genome Project
by Up to Date
A visit with composer Nolan Gasser, who in addition to being a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, and musicologist is the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, the musical technology behind the famous Pandora personalized radio application.
New Film Follows Senegalese Singer Youssou N'Dour
by Susan B. Wilson
In 2004, Youssou N’Dour released the album Egypt, in which he was hoping to promote a positive view of his country’s main religion, Islam. But many people in Senegal considered the album blasphemous, for mixing secular and religious music.
Rapper Stik Figa Previews New CD
by Alex Smith
If Stik Figa's live performance style seems influenced by the good-time rap of the 80's, it might have something to do with his first inspiration, the 80's rap film Krush Groove. At his home in Topeka, he recently told KCUR's Alex Smith that he first saw this early slice of hip hop culture when he was a globe-hopping army brat.

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