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Ahead of the release of the artist’s posthumous album, a sense of awe and mystery around his huge archive of unreleased music remains
Record label chief, promoter, TV producer, Michael Gudinski’s career stretched from Skyhooks to signing Kylie Minogue to charity feats and nurturing today’s talent on TV music shows such as the ABC’s The Sound.
Memories are closely linked with music.
When pop star D'banj signed up to help get Goodluck Jonathan elected president, fans turned on him. But a hit song turned things around.
For a decade after they met as teenagers, Lennon-McCartney was the most potent songwriting partnership in pop music.
Nick Cave’s ongoing letters to fans, begun after a period of intense mourning over the death of his son, have much to say about suffering, mercy and meaning-making.
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.
Prince was a musical genius, but he didn’t come of age in a vacuum. A human geographer explains how Minneapolis’ unique musical culture nurtured and inspired the budding star.
From a quiet start to cultural dominance, Beyoncé’s work over the last decade is groundbreaking. But it is also filled with questions and contradictions.
Soothing tunes for anxious times.
Music doesn’t get objectively worse over time. So why do older generations scoff at each new top 40 hit?
The US pop singer has been ordered to pay a Hip Hop artist for copyright infringement. But the judgment lowers the bar on musical copying.
Why 50/50 festival line-ups are not an easy solution to gender inequality.
K-pop fans are a global network of varied ages and nationalities, who have an active, creative and symbiotic relationship with their idols.
Long known as a spectacle of quirky Euro-kitsch, this year’s contest more closely resembled singing TV shows such as The Voice. Notable exceptions, however, were Iceland’s Hatari and our own Kate Miller-Heidke.
There is a long list of bands that fell apart over artistic differences. But conflict between band members – and even some creative sledging – can be crucial to making better music.
Possessed of one of the most distinctive voices in pop music, Scott Walker’s avant-garde aesthetic and skill as a composer made him an enduring and influential artist over more than 40 years.
Sexual abuse in the music industry is a systemic, ongoing problem that won’t be resolved by just hacking away at the canon.
Jazz used to be experienced on a dance floor. But over time, it became something to dissect and analyze.
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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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Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender, Macquarie University
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Music Psychology, Durham University
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Director, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Adjunct Lecturer of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University