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Delilah: The Cat in Queen’s Innuendo
Queen's Delilah places a domestic cat inside an arena-sized musical world. Its small, affectionate subject gives the song an unusual place on Innuendo.
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MusicThe Cat Came Back: A Song That Refuses to Leave
Follow The Cat Came Back from an 1893 song to Cordell Barker’s darkly funny animated short, with a…
MusicNora the Piano Cat and the Orchestra That Played Along
How recordings of Nora at the piano became CATcerto, a work for chamber orchestra and video by Mindaugas…
MusicMeow the Jewels: When Cat Sounds Became Hip-Hop Material
Run the Jewels turned a feline remix premise into a full album. The project offers an unusual way…
MusicMusic for Cats: What Happens When the Listener Is Feline?
Researchers have composed music around feline sounds and rhythms. Their experiments ask a better question than whether every…
MusicCat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats: Three Musical Identities
A listening route through Cat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats, exploring three distinct musical identities connected by…
MusicCats in Opera and Classical Music: From Rossini’s Cat Duet to Prokofiev’s Clarinet
From Rossini’s borrowed cat duet to Prokofiev’s clarinet: feline music, ballet and opera, with the keyboard legends separated…
MusicSongs About Cats: From Nina Simone to Radiohead
Explore feline pop history, from Nina Simone’s animated video and Japan’s Black Cat Tango to the Stray Cats,…
MusicJazz Slang Cat: Why Musicians Call Each Other Cat
Trace jazz slang cat through early dictionary records, Cab Calloway’s jive glossary, Lester Young, and the vocabulary’s travels…
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