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The history of recorded music has been marked by endless artistic and technological changes. While music labels persist, digital technology has profoundly altered why they exist and how they work.
Live performances account for more than 40 percent of their income, while profits from streaming and record sales amount to only 5 percent of their earnings.
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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.
Nagging or bribing a child to practise their musical instrument only makes the activity feel like a chore. Here's how to support your child and bring back harmony to the whole family.
It isn't easy, but musicians build 'portfolio careers' by being adaptable, multiskilled and willing to learn, so they can pursue creative work that they believe in.
The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
Musicians and athletes have a lot in common when it comes to performing in the glare of the spotlight.
Hugh Masekela's itinerary-in-exile was loud and clear in his songs.
South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela made an impact across the world during his decades-long musical career.
Two of South Africa's finest musicians, Johnny Mekoa and Ray Phiri, died recently. The permeable terrain between genres their careers negotiated, is being replaced by rigid marketing categories.
Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Nirvana's Nevermind was emblematic of the 1990s. But in today's fragmented digital age, can anyone nominate an album that defines the first or second decade of the 21st century?
After winning his Grammy in 1996, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder said, 'I don't think this means anything.' Was he right?
Musicians have largely greeted Trump with the sound of silence – and in doing so, they check the normalisation of the current administration.
In Australia, musicians' total income actually went up last year. While the music industry still faces many challenges, there is now a world-wide push to boost artists' royalties paid by streaming services such as Spotify.
Female popular musicians die younger – and from more unnatural causes like suicide, homicide and accidents – than women in the general population. What's going wrong?
Why are women still marginalised in the rock industry? There are many reasons - from a male dominated music canon to belittling attitudes - but women are speaking up and lobbying for change.
Bitcoin, blockchain and automatic royalty payments could transform how musicians earn.
The Congolese album ‘Nangadeef’ remains largely unexplored, despite its genius. As a rich repository of Afrofuturistic data, it deserves to be delved into by lovers of African art.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Psychology and Music, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Professor of Music, University of Newcastle
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Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Teaching Fellow: Film, Media & American Studies, University of Bath
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Associate Dean: Research and Innovation, University of Salford
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, Middlesex University
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
