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See the human body morph into musical instruments from around the world at a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A new exhibition that opened this week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art puts 4,000 years of human music-making ...

‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have long forged relationships with instruments ...
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Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
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Instrumental lives musical instruments, material culture, and social networks in East and Southeast Asia edited by Helen Rees

The Aesthetics of Koto Strings: Materiality and Physical Sensation in Performance -- The Cålåpitå Past the "Dull Edge" of Extinction: A Shaggy Dog Story of Repatriation and Refusal in Bali -- Pines in ...