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Many artists are expected to organise their own ticket sales and event promotion. This is coupled with low pay from venues and having to juggle music with other full-time jobs.
The viability of any music culture depends on the availability of musicians.
Cobain was very much the anti-superstar of his time.
For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
Informal learning is linked with increased numbers of students choosing music at GCSE.
Lots of factors can influence your music taste, from your age and where you’re from to the personality traits you have.
Doherty’s life features many of the characteristics experts know increases vulnerability for drug use.
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
Jim Croce’s brief time in the national spotlight was enough to put a bevy of songs in heavy rotation on radio stations – and on stage in the hands of a lengthy A-list of fellow musicians.
A professor of modern Catholicism looks back at the ways the iconic Irish singer steeped herself in religion, even as she criticized its institutions.
Doc Watson’s popularity and influence came from his virtuosic guitar playing, powerful voice, broad musical taste, folksy storytelling and lack of pretense.
Justin Bieber will no longer own the rights to music he created before 2022 – a legal expert explains why he made the decision, and why he may go on to regret it.
Two guitar experts break down the techniques and creative expression that led Beck to be known as the ‘guitarist’s guitarist’.
HIs outrageous talent was matched by a personal life marked by bigamy, violence, drugs, alcohol and his 1958 marriage to his 13-year-old cousin.
Access to instruments and instruction, along with encouragement at home and at school during childhood and early adulthood, can make gaining musical experience possible.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Creating holographic ‘digital twins’ will significantly reduce the stress, cost and logistical issues of touring – and means artists can live forever onstage.
A Spotify boycott wouldn’t fix the working conditions of most musicians. Fostering a more equitable, community-based music culture requires changing how we listen to music and support its production.
Released at the height of the Vietnam War, Marvin Gaye’s hit-heavy album explored themes of race, environmentalism and conflict. It also marked a new direction for the Motown record label..
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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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Lecturer, Hearing Science, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London
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Director of Curriculum and Teaching Transformation, Professor of Learning Futures, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor of Music, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, Middlesex University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, University of Bath
