Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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.
Ghana has long attracted African Americans who have suffered racial injustices in the US.
Canadian rap artist Drake was forced to pull a diss track he had produced that used an AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur.
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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.
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.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.
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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.
Graduates toss their caps into the air at the conclusion of the 2022 Dana Hills High School graduation ceremony in Dana Hills, Calif.
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For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
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.