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Renaissance is Beyoncé’s first solo album in more than five years, and her first fully dance album.
Paul McCartney appears to compose the smash hit ‘Get Back’ from thin air in a clip from the Beatles documentary of the same name — but experts propose at least eight other factors behind it.
Historically, men have done most of the talking and writing about music. A new collection of essays, taking its title from a Kate Bush song, invites women writers to reflect on female musical muses.
He is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. You don’t get there without your fans.
Music education in Minneapolis public schools stood out as one of the best and gave rise to the city’s music scene that helped propel Prince to fame, a scholar writes.
Rather than being an act of censorship, The Rolling Stone’s decision to remove Brown Sugar from their set list is a show of artistic freedom.
Released on September 9, 1971, the power of Imagine has not diluted. It is the song many turn to at times of crisis: from Neil Young after 9/11 to a pianist on the streets of Paris in 2015.
Unloading about trauma and mental illness is in vogue. But like undressing, it centers musicians’ vulnerabilities at the expense of their artistry.
From legendary punk band The Saints to a current tour with drummer Jim White, Ed Kuepper has been making music for almost 50 years.
Australia was the only nation to perform ‘live-on-tape’ in the first Eurovision semi-final. Some suggest this hindered our chances, but taped performances may be the way of the future.
Where are they now? It’s half a century since Young Talent Times aired on Australian television. It changed its young stars and audiences.
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.
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Associate professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in the Sociology of Gender, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Popular Music Studies, University of Leeds
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Casual lecturer, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Lecturer of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, McMaster University
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Director, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer in Commercial Music Performance, University of Westminster
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Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
