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• Culture / Music

  Culture Briefing

  

  Issue 48

  This month's books, music and films.

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  Culture / Music

  And an Other thing

  

  Issue 3

  Other Music, New York.

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  Culture / Music

  Summer hit wave

  

  Issue 15

  Monocle’s summer catalogue of culture aims to arm even the most outdoorsy with enough books and records, cinematic suggestions and art events to make you pray for rain. Almost.

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  Affairs / Music

  Mrs Dynamite

  Issue 28

  Oumou Sangaré sings from the heart about pain, poverty and polygamous men. Her feminist lyrics and unflinching political stance have made her a role-model for thousands of women in Mali – and across Africa as a whole.

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• Edits / Music

  Mountain high

  

  Issue 6

  Music festivals have become big business in Japan, whether you want kodo drummers at The Earth Celebration or J-pop at A-Nation. But the one that started the boom is still the biggest and the best: Fuji Rock. We headed to…

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  Culture / Music

  For the Record

  

  Issue 4

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  Culture / Music

  Culture Briefing

  

  Issue 43

  A round of the best books, films and music.

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  Culture / Music

  Keep on playing

  

  Issue 44

  Ethio-jazz was the thrilling sound of Ethiopia in the 1960s and ’70s, blending traditional music with funk and soul. James Brown impersonators yelped and pelvic-thrusted their way around stages before a communist dictato…

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  Just for the record

  

  Issue 17

  In 1997, four former DJs and vinyl enthusiasts managed to get hold of a record pressing machine. Today, small independent studios and big record companies alike are queueing up for Vinylium’s services.

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  Culture / Music

  Floating on air

  

  Issue 50

  Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, aka French ambient electro band Air, talk to Monocle about their working life, from a reluctance to dance on stage and their inner maths geeks to finding studio voodoo power.

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  Culture / Music

  Culture briefing

  

  Issue 61

  Books, films and music to make a date for.

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  Culture / Music

  Culture briefing

  

  Issue 24

  Books: Re-issue of a post-apocalyptic classic, photos of New York store fronts and a graphic trip through neurotic adolescence. Film: Two delectable French thrillers: L'instinct de Mort and Pour Elle. Music: Electro-rock…

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