Kirk Franklin: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month by featuring four weeks of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and playlists by Black artists spanning different genres and generations each week. The lineup includes both emerging and established artists who will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. This celebration highlights the […]

Music was important in the life of ancient Greece
Although music was important in the life of ancient Greece, it is not now known how that music actually sounded. Only a few notated fragments have survived, and no key exists for restoring even these. The Greeks were given to theoretical speculation about music; they had a system of notation, and they “practiced music,” as […]

SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF YOUNG CYBER CRIMINALS
ABSTRACT The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) and the ensuing diffusion of internet in sub Saharan Africa have ushered in a new form of criminality commonly referred to as African scams or yahoo-yahoo. In recent times, there has been an upsurge in the number of youths involved in cybercrime. Using Robert Merton’s Social […]

The Social Dilemma
The more we learn about the insidiousness that underlies social media in the new documentary “The Social Dilemma,” the more it seems like the film is bringing a sling shot to a nuclear war. What we learn in this movie is that our brains are being manipulated and even rewired by algorithms that are designed to […]

Music
Music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. Both the simple folk song and the complex electronic composition belong to the same activity, music. Both are humanly engineered, both are conceptual and auditory, and […]

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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE PRODUCTION OF YOUNG CYBER CRIMINALS
ABSTRACT The advent of information and communication technology (ICT) and the ensuing diffusion of internet in sub Saharan Africa have ushered in a new form of criminality commonly referred to as African scams or yahoo-yahoo. In recent times, there has been an upsurge in the number of youths involved in cybercrime. Using Robert Merton’s Social […]

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