Unloading about trauma and mental illness is in vogue. But like undressing, it centers musicians’ vulnerabilities at the expense of their artistry.
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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.
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.
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Senior Lecturer, 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
