Despite some surprising omissions, this documentary grounds the impact of British girlbands in a valuable wider context.
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An expert in American dialects explains how a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawned so many names and variations.
Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so.
Released during the grim British winter of 1973, the song was written to lift people’s spirits during tough times, and has become a classic of the genre. This year, it seems more relevant than ever.
Rather than offering authenticity and inviting her fans into her life, Katy Perry’s latest single reproduces and in fact exaggerates the same persona that fuelled her earlier success.
In the album, Swift claims that she can use heartbreak as a stimulus for creativity, rather than allow it to dictate her everyday life.
Politics have never been that far away from the Eurovision Song Contest. Since its inception, the annual event has reflected the political culture and geopolitical realities of Europe.
Whether you love it or hate it, Christmas music is unavoidable during the holiday season. But what makes a Christmas number one, and why is the music of yule so meaningful?
BTS has broken record after record but the industry still discounts K-pop as not pop.
Aspiring singers can now use apps to record professional-sounding songs from their phones. This has the potential to disrupt the recording and publishing industry.
Since it began in the 1950s, Eurovision has embraced everything from metal to the global juggernaut of Scandi-pop, and of course the Eurodance and disco synonymous with Eurovision.
As always, Eurovision 2017 blended pop and politics. Russia was missing from the Ukrainian-hosted contest, and the UK had healing words, post Brexit.
The Scottish capital is reopening a well kept secret: one of the world’s finest collections of vintage sound machines.
A year after Prince’s death, fans the world over are still coming to terms with the loss of an uncompromising musical and cultural visionary.
MPs and rock songs may seem like odd bedfellows, but the charity single marks a longstanding shift in how music mobilises the masses.
Results of the first large-scale study to specifically investigate the musical features that might increase the ‘earworminess’ of a song.
Music has helped Europeans develop a better understanding of British culture than Brits will ever have of Europe.
Behavioral research shows why a heavy-handed approach like the UK’s soda tax works better than the mere warning that San Francisco wants to put in advertisements.
From Beyoncé and Lady Gaga to Kanye and even Rihanna, pop royalty is crazy for high art. Is this a phenomenon worth celebrating or are pop stars mining the art world to gain credibility?
Superstar Prince’s impact went far beyond the realm of music. His relevance stretched beyond the concert hall into many lecture rooms.
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Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Music Psychology, Durham University
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Lecturer in Journalism, Communications and New Media, Thompson Rivers University
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Music, Bangor University
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Professor of Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Economics and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Teaching Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
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Henry J. Leir Chair in Language, Literature and Culture, Clark University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Pop and Global Cultural Industries (and Adjunct Lecturer, University of the West Indies), Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in Music, University of Liverpool
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Dalla Lana Fellow in Global Journalism, University of Toronto
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Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Saint Mary’s University