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Taylor Swift is one of the most well-known celebrities today, but her fame obscures analysis of her musicianship.
There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response to that imprecision, a professor of hip-hop writes.
Should a rap album be counted as a scholarly work? We asked a scholar who makes hip-hop and hit the recording studio to earn his Ph.D.
When you sample speech and put it on a loop, we stop paying attention to the meaning of the words. We start paying attention to the sound, the rhythm and the melody. We hear speech as music.
Beyoncé playfully mixes aural identifiers of both ‘blackness’ and ‘whiteness’ to create something new
Hip-hop traveled far after being birthed by Black Americans in US cities. The journey hasn’t always been smooth.
For thousands of years, music has been an essential part of the human experience.
Plus, is the human emotional response to music innate or is it shaped by a person’s culture? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
What is musicology and why is it important?
Listening more deeply to what makes sounds meaningful for people within their respective contexts matters in an era of rising expressions of racism in the pandemic.
Why and how do we groove? Researchers are investigating how we respond to music, with applications for therapy.
Should unfinished art remain so?
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Today, we're hearing about a researcher who records birdsong, how tech changes music and why song might help address Indigenous language loss.
Most people have strong opinions on what makes a song good or bad. But is anyone actually right?
My investigations have generated stunning insights into how the ancient Greeks made music.
Almost anyone can be taught how to sing.
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The fictional character of Carmen – the heroine of Bizet’s opera – attracts a range of labels which variously position her as seductress, femme fatale, sex addict, fate/ death obsessed, victim, liberated…
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Research Affiliate, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
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Educational Experiences team lead (Senior Lecturer), ANU School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Academic Program, Music, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Music, The University of Western Australia
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Instructor, Faculty of Extension's Department of Communications and Design, University of Alberta
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Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar at Bar-Ilan University and Honorary Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Music History, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor in Irish Traditional Music, University of Limerick
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand