The pop icon’s new album marks a growing debate about the social tensions between feminism and rising conservatism.
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Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, unbearable loss and creative renewal.
These breakup albums can help listeners to grieve previous relationships.
Despite some surprising omissions, this documentary grounds the impact of British girlbands in a valuable wider context.
Listen if you dare …
All the tracks have stood the test of time, but Common People stands out above them all.
MTV, once a phenomenon with the “video replaces radio” slogan, is now facing a crushing reality on how streaming has replaced video stars.
It’s no real surprise that the Jersey legend has now been given the biopic treatment.
Taking up a hobby like art, dance or music classes could have significant hidden benefits.
Fender grew up in a disintegrating family in a disintegrating former industrial region, and has written about collective suffering with great skill and passion.
Puerto Ricans like Bad Bunny complicate the administration’s campaign to portray America as an English-speaking, homogenous nation.
In his lyrics, the folksinger and herald of US postwar social struggles described his era. In some ways, it resembles our own.
Here’s what happens in your brain when you can’t get a tune out of your head.
I am one of many researchers exploring the social science of Taylor Swift’s success.
Swift’s cover transforms the corpse-like Ophelia into a striking image, with her eyes open and staring, as though a dead woman has come back to life to accuse us.
The new song on The Life of a Showgirl credits the late George Michael as a songwriter – and borrows some lyrics. But it still hold its own as an original track.
Superstar Taylor Swift has entered her showgirl era. But what does the new persona say about her, and why has she harnessed this image now?
Her lyrics are full of nods to the Romantics and share many of the same concerns.
Can musical training rewire the brain to resist pain?
A sociologist and longtime punk rock fan reflects on Philly’s heyday of squatters, underground venues, anarchist spaces and anti-capitalist protest.
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Academic in the School of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer in Music Industry and Popular Culture, RMIT University
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Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
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Professor of Music, Culture and Society, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University