Tag: music
Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care
Brigid Cohen, New York University
Light a match and watch till it goes out. Go to the middle of...
What’s behind the magic of live music?
Mariusz Kozak, Columbia University
For months, fans were relegated to watching their favorite singers and musicians over Zoom or...
R. Kelly was aided by a network of complicity – common...
Peggy Cunningham, Dalhousie University and Minette Drumwright, University of Texas at Austin
R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty...
How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished...
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion...
Mood, music and money: what our Spotify playlists reveal about the...
Ivan Indriawan, Auckland University of Technology; Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Auckland University of Technology; Alexandre Garel, Audencia, and Alex Edmans, London Business School
How Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest...
Victor Coelho, Boston University
In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to...
Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for...
Kristin J. Lieb, Emerson College
In Billie Eilish’s 2019 video for “Bury A Friend,” the then-17-year-old singer blurs the...
‘What’s Going On’ at 50 – Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is...
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.”
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
