The bigger, easier to read screen makes navigation a lot more pleasant than on, say, the tiny read-out on Cowon's iAudio M3, and it can display cover art for the song you're listening to.

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While listening to a song with album art displayed, you can tap the screen below the art to display a playback slider.

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"There's definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience engaged in terms of a larger narrative arc, " he says.

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Uygur muqam is the most comprehensive art form included in the event, integrating song, dance and entertainment.

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Sotheby's said Song ceramics are increasingly being sought after by Chinese art collectors.

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Another causes album art to either never appear, or to show up only when a song is almost done playing.

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Iran's Ministry of Islamic Guidance does not consider rap an art form, so no Iranian rapper can get government permission to record a song.

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Toward the end, Nash said, "No tribute to Blue Note records would be complete without honoring Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, " and then launched "Mosaic, " a song from the early 1960s by Cedar Walton with blistering cymbals, struck from above and below.

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Unlike other well documented forms of storytelling through song in Tamil Nadu - like the Katha Kalakshepam from Thanjavur - Kathaiyum Paattum is a more informal art performed, as experts say, "under the radar".

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