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Lots of factors can influence your music taste, from your age and where you’re from to the personality traits you have.
Doherty’s life features many of the characteristics experts know increases vulnerability for drug use.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
A professor of modern Catholicism looks back at the ways the iconic Irish singer steeped herself in religion, even as she criticized its institutions.
Doc Watson’s popularity and influence came from his virtuosic guitar playing, powerful voice, broad musical taste, folksy storytelling and lack of pretense.
Justin Bieber will no longer own the rights to music he created before 2022 – a legal expert explains why he made the decision, and why he may go on to regret it.
Two guitar experts break down the techniques and creative expression that led Beck to be known as the ‘guitarist’s guitarist’.
HIs outrageous talent was matched by a personal life marked by bigamy, violence, drugs, alcohol and his 1958 marriage to his 13-year-old cousin.
Access to instruments and instruction, along with encouragement at home and at school during childhood and early adulthood, can make gaining musical experience possible.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Creating holographic ‘digital twins’ will significantly reduce the stress, cost and logistical issues of touring – and means artists can live forever onstage.
A Spotify boycott wouldn’t fix the working conditions of most musicians. Fostering a more equitable, community-based music culture requires changing how we listen to music and support its production.
Released at the height of the Vietnam War, Marvin Gaye’s hit-heavy album explored themes of race, environmentalism and conflict. It also marked a new direction for the Motown record label..
Most of your Spotify subscription fee goes to pop stars in curated playlists – even if you never listen to them.
Cassette tapes are in again – and this time, it’s smaller artists who look likely to gain.
Over the past year, the singer has carefully constructed a visage that has made him nearly unrecognizable.
Spotify is offering to boost artists’ position on its playlists in return for paying them lower royalties. Can struggling musicians afford to say no?
Musicians and songwriters are struggling to survive while record labels are reporting record profits – here’s why this is happening.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University of London
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle 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 Popular Music and Media Studies, University of Alberta
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Lecturer in Music Industry and Popular Culture, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Hearing Science, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Associate professor, Aston University
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PhD Researcher in Student Wellbeing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Research Affiliate, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University
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Senior Researcher Music Export and Technology, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University