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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Chances are your favourite band started out learning the trade at a pub or small club. Venues like this are under threat like never before.
There’s a new Prince album coming out, two years after his death. Would the artist approve?
Australia is home to a diverse range of female hip hop artists. Here’s our guide to five of the best.
Thousands of Australians go to residential drug and alcohol rehab programs every year. But is there evidence rehabs, as well as the group therapy they often rely on, actually work?
Sia is being sued for what her fans felt was a lacklustre show. But pop history is littered with live disasters.
Female popular musicians die younger – and from more unnatural causes like suicide, homicide and accidents – than women in the general population. What’s going wrong?
Asif Kapadia’s documentary shows what it means for a life to be up for public consumption.
A few years ago a student of mine turned up to class wearing a T-shirt that had Kurt Cobain’s suicide note printed on it. I recognised it straight away - I suspect many people around my age spent a period…
Public attitudes towards drugs are shaped by many things, including high-profile celebrity encounters with drugs and addiction. One unfortunate example of this involves popular Canadian actor Cory Monteith…
It’s a cliché to say that we like em’ dying young. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. A cliché, yes, but a beseeching one nevertheless. Amy Winehouse’s death over the weekend – untimely…
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Senior Lecturer in Commercial Music Performance, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Professor of Music (rtd), University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate, University of Roehampton
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Emerson College
