Tag: music
30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay‑Z’s career embodies hip‑hop’s biggest contradictions
Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina
“Reasonable Doubt” was not the first rap album I ever owned. But...
Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new...
Daryl Lim, Penn State
As one of the most popular celebrities in the world, Taylor Swift has already endured...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is part of long play drawn...
Jared Bahir Browsh, University of Colorado Boulder
Donald Trump, it is fair to assume, will be switching channels during...
Grammys’ AI rules aim to keep music human, but large gray...
Mark Benincosa, West Virginia University
At its best, artificial intelligence can assist people in analyzing data, automating tasks and...
The only thing limiting Taylor Swift’s popularity is partisan polarization
Laurel Elder, Hartwick College; Jeff Gulati, Bentley University; Mary-Kate Lizotte, Augusta University, and Steven Greene, North Carolina State University
Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s...
Richard Nedjat-Haiem, University of California, Santa Barbara
Before Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh.
The marketing genius of Spotify Wrapped
Ishani Banerji, Clemson University
Even before this year’s Spotify Wrapped drops, I have a hunch what mine will reveal.
How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become...
Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Lehman College, CUNY
What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of...



















