Creativity

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Dance moves: How swing became the first pop music – and gave us the first hipsters

Jazz's contentious birthing of swing, 1928-31. Our series looking at 'periods of innovation' spurring the evolution of music to dance to

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Dance moves: Blues explosions, 1914-17

How America got the blues. The latest in a series examining 'periods of innovation' spurring the evolution of music to dance to

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Mind the font: celebrating the man who gave London its letters

A new exhibition looks at the work of Edward Johnston and his enduring visual identity for the London transport system

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Dance moves: Race and the rise of ragtime, 1900-13

A new series charts 20th-century 'periods of innovation' spurring the evolution of music to dance to. The first instalment looks at the emergence of ragtime

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Where do creatives cluster?

Data visualisation: exploring where people working in the UK's creative occupations live

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Cinema Ex Machina

How tech tycoons became the Gordon Gekkos of today's pop culture

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Electronic music: a blueprint

Favourited: Mapping the evolution of a music genre

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The private painting of Eileen Gray

A new exhibition of work by the celebrated 20th-century designer

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Innovation heroes, #3: Geoffrey Pyke

The man who tried to build aircraft carriers out of icebergs