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Thursday, November 5, 2026

SOUNDTRACKS & MUSIC STORYTELLING

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Deshawn Carter

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Deshawn Carter covers Music News, Artists and Culture.

Articles by Deshawn Carter

The Second Hearing: Why the Same Cue Sounds Different the Second Time

The Second Hearing: Why the Same Cue Sounds Different the Second Time

Deshawn Carter

Fan Narratives: How Fandoms Write Their Own Lore

Fan Narratives: How Fandoms Write Their Own Lore

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Narratives of the Road: What Touring Memoirs Reveal About the Unglamorous Side of Making It

Narratives from the Crib — Narratives of the Road: What Touring Memoirs Reveal About the Unglamorous Side of Making It

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The Second Verse: How the Comeback Story Gets Retold

Narratives Definition — The Second Verse: How the Comeback Story Gets Retold

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Silence as Storytelling: Why What You Don't Hear Matters as Much as the Score

Silence in Film Scores — Silence as Storytelling: Why What You Don't Hear Matters as Much as the Score

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The Motif That Waits: How Composers Plant Seeds for Later Payoff

Musical Foreshadowing — The Motif That Waits: How Composers Plant Seeds for Later Payoff

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The Score and the Songs: How One Soundtrack Won Two Grammys

The Score and the Songs: How One Soundtrack Won Two Grammys

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Infographic diagram of one theme branching into variations

The Same Song Twice: how theme and variations became a plot structure

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Concertgoers in a candlelit nineteenth-century hall reading printed programmes

The Programme in the Pamphlet: where program music began

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Weathered old violin lying on a stone hearth beside fading embers

Six Verses and a Body: how the folk ballad built narrative song

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Family gathered around a wooden console radio in a lamplit 1930s living room

Theatre of the Ear: how music and sound design carried radio drama before television

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Empty theater stage with lone spotlight, pointe shoes and ballet barre at wing

Stories Told on Pointe: how ballet scores carry plot without a single word

Deshawn Carter