In 1984, the album was atop the charts, and Ronald Reagan, running for reelection, told a New Jersey audience that he and the Boss shared the same American dream. Springsteen vehemently disagreed.
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Ghana has long attracted African Americans who have suffered racial injustices in the US.
The AI train has left the station. Now, guardrails need to be hastily built to keep the technology from running the music industry off the tracks.
The Beach Boys’ new documentary highlights the band’s six-decade long legacy, but misses an opportunity to highlight some key moments.
Walt Disney songwriter Richard M. Sherman, who has died aged 95, wrote some of Hollywood’s greatest film musical songs.
The government has been investigating Live Nation Entertainment for years. But a presale ticketing debacle for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour heightened scrutiny from politicians and the public.
The album is an important art form and Eilish is bold in trying to bring it back by releasing no singles and forcing fans to listen through.
Detroit has a rich music tradition and is known for its role in the development of house.
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.
How Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ actions are framed and responded to can send a powerful message about our tolerance of men’s violence.
Music can provide incarcerated youth with opportunities to build confidence, engage with learning, develop social skills, and and redefine themselves from young offenders to young artists.
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
The Australian live music industry is in crisis. Is $8.6 million for Revive Live enough to turn things around?
The diss tracks released by rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar raise interesting questions about defamation in music lyrics.
Next year will mark the 69th edition of the contest. But the highly charged nature of this year’s event has left many question its future.
Crushing pianos, video games and emojis doesn’t seem to have delivered the slick messaging the brand was aiming for.
There is a long tradition in video art where artists have used existing footage to comment on and amplify social, political and environmental issues.
I knew Steve Albini, who has died at just 61, as a kind, patient and accommodating engineer, committed to the truest possible representation of live sound.
A number of celebrities have made it clear they won’t ‘pick a side’ in relation to the war on Gaza. Macklemore clearly isn’t worried about that.
While they may have fallen short of Eurovision glory, Electric Fields still blazed a trail for First Nations representation.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
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Deputy Head of School, Senior Lecturer in Piano and Musicology, School of Music, Australian National University
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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