Spotivangelism
...control. In Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, professor of digital cultural studies Raiford Guins examines ways in which users of newer media technologies are offered “empowerment”...
Streaming Services
...on the internet. We started posting zip files full of our music and artwork to Tumblr, for free. There was a very well-developed culture around music on the internet back...
American Sajaegi
...of staunch traditionalists or embittered culture warriors. Wallen’s confessional, conversational songwriting is fully conversant with hip-hop, and Combs’ decision to keep the original gendered pronouns intact on his Tracy Chapman...
What Even is African Literature Anyway
...the meta-discourse is all about identifying "influences." In this sense, music is culture as worked over, "taken from American Negro jazz and hammered out on the anvil of the South...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...on a different theme: the story of Willis’ changing relationship to the music she loves, and the story of a certain strain of popular American culture. The book follows rock...
Power Pop
...to puffing works of uncertain literary value in reviews.” The same infection can be found in the PRC’s musical culture, where the boundaries between music criticism and press releases are...
Just Play
Ruminations on the themes of McCoy Tyner’s life on the occasion of his passing
Teenage Dream
...I know you've written on music and worked on film for years, but historically, where does your interest in youth culture come from? JS: I suppose, really, I'm the kind...
Footnote Records
...music for mainstream audiences, and more than a half-century later, the practice remains. Today, rap culture is pop culture, but there still exists a strong desire to “decode” rap music’s...
Country Crushes
...pop culture sometimes claim it is just a government-pushed PR mirage, but neither is remotely true…only after Korean music was established and significant did the government get interested.” And yet,...
Radical Strain
...of magazine and encyclopedia in music culture, hold women to rigorous standards of music-making. At the time of writing, nearly 84 percent of Pitchfork's Best New Album designations have been...
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
...“Winona” Eigenface (Colorized), Labelled Faces in the Wild Dataset 2016 I. OUR eyes are fleshy things, and for most of human history our visual culture has also...
Loving the Alien
...Bruits in 2001, which has not been translated into English.) In Noise, Attali tried to account for the hypercommodification of music and our resulting alienation from musical creativity and pleasure....
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...pop songs can save souls came from. The revivalists established a playbook for winning over large crowds that still sees regular use. The distinctive culture of camp meetings produced new...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...dismissive of the argument that streaming is “bad for artists.” Whenever a piece of new technology shows up and makes music more accessible, the record industry always complains that it's...
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.