Tag: Music industry
African-American Music Appreciation Month: 5 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
To commemorate African-American Music Appreciation Month this June, California Senator Kamala Harris released a Spotify playlist with songs spanning genres and...
Are there too many music festivals?
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Coachella unofficially kicks off the 2017 U.S. festival season on April 15, and while this year’s event...
How Prince’s quest for complete artistic control changed the music industry...
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
The death of Prince marks the end of a brilliant music career by one of pop music’s most talented and...
Stand by your Maine: country music’s Northern roots
By Clifford Murphy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
This past June, radio conglomerate Clear Channel (now known as iHeartRadio) announced it was converting Boston’s 101.7...
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...
