Folklore
Lullabies are frequently not comforting
Songs sung to get children to sleep share musical features across the world and, in their words, cover subjects a great deal darker than the tune suggests.
Topic
music
Every Kohopoho article tagged music — 3 pieces across 3 sections.
Festivals & Ritual
Music that is not for listening to
A great deal of the world’s music exists to accompany work, ritual or dance, and treating it as concert material misses what it is doing.
Craft Traditions
Making instruments: wood chosen for how it sounds
Instrument makers select material by tapping it, and the traditions that developed around particular timbers, skins and metals are among the most conservative of any craft.