Hip-hop officially became the most popular music genre in 2018 and continued its reign in 2019, according to Nielsen Music. Lev Radin/Shutterstock.com January 13, 2020 Why hip-hop belongs in today’s classrooms Nolan Jones, Mills College For the second year in a row, hip-hop music is the most popular form of music in the US. So why isn’t it in more of America’s classrooms? A hip-hop scholar weighs in.
This is America. Childish Gambino/YouTube May 18, 2018 As Childish Gambino shows, pop music can be powerfully political – despite censorship Matthew Alford, University of Bath and Patrycja Rozbicka, Aston University The music industry, like all other media, can be censored to some extent. So how does this change its output?
The cover of Childish Gambino’s album ‘Awaken my love’. December 12, 2016 Yes, 2016 was crazy. But the future of art is bright and black Michael Shakib Bhatch, University of the Western Cape In a gloomy year filled, a number of artists with an Afrofuturist perspective gave hope with inspired works of art.