Music
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Jacobs At 100: Celebrating A Century Of Beautiful Music
When Barzille Winfred Merrill accepted the position as head of the IU Department of Music in 1919, he hoped to create a music school that would serve as both a…
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Bootsy Boogies with IU
“Yabba dabba doo! Bootzilla is here!” With that funkadelic introduction, genre-defining funk bassist Bootsy Collins brought his signature starry-eyed swagger to the IU tune “Indiana Fight.” Collins remixed the song…
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From Cream and Crimson to Grammy Gold
Indiana University is home to one of the nation’s most prestigious schools of music, the Jacobs School of Music. So it may come as no surprise that IU alumni, faculty,…
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The Top 5 Rock Albums of All Time (According to this IU Music Prof)
In 1982, Glenn Gass became the first professor in the United States to offer a course in the history of rock ‘n’ roll within a school of music. To this…