While the genre is now overwhelming white, its roots are in Black music.
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BTS has broken record after record but the industry still discounts K-pop as not pop.
Few of those in the K-pop industry have donated or even spoken out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Australian musicians make it work by balancing music and non-music jobs, self-employment, contracts, and a love for the art.
A period of intense dreaming in 1964 shaped the entire body of the late Joseph Shabalala’s songs. In these rare in-depth interviews, he spoke of his beliefs and inspirations.
Ignore business books which promise to reveal the secret formula of success – usually it’s down to luck.
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.
Labor’s arts election policy includes more funding for the Australia Council and the ABC. But while this is welcome, arts and culture deserve far greater attention.
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.
K-pop has claimed its share of the world market. It is about time that I-pop gives its best to do the same.
Their compilation album Love Yourself: Answer sold 2.5m copies – that’s twice as many as One Direction’s last album.
While they may talk about ‘free speech,’ businesses make decisions about their content based on a very different set of principles.
Song by song streaming services may be hurting the album commercially, but its place in our cultural lexicon will be harder to shake.
The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
Why, in 2017, are women still falling behind in the ARIA awards: in nominations, winners, and performances?
Ticket touting is bad for fans and it’s bad for the industry, but should reselling tickets be a criminal offence?
The Mercury Prize still relies on the album format in an age of downloads and streaming.
SoundCloud has been saved by its biggest injection of cash yet.
There are a few things that musicians should understand about the music industry if they are to avoid being taken for a ride.
The story of African-American music is a story of eclipsing expectations and subverting norms.
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
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Course Director MA (Music Industries), University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King's College London
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Popular Music, University of Sydney
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Reader in Screen Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
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Professeure titulaire, Faculté des arts, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Lecturer - Creative Industries, University of South Australia
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