Bruce Springsteen: an Aristotle for our times
‘I wanted to hear, and I wanted to know the whole American story.’
Music
Katy Perry liable for US$2.8m for Dark Horse ‘copyright infringement’ – but the real loser is the music industry
Copyright should only protect original unique creative expression
How Masekela’s journeys in exile shaped his music and politics
Masekela’s 30 years of exile began shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre
The Juno Awards finally celebrate hip hop, but is it too late?
Canadian hip hop currently leads the global music charts
Music festivals: how to get more women on stage
(and it’s not just 50/50 quotas)
David Arditi on The Ideology of Getting Signed
David Arditi is Professor of Sociology with University of Texas at Arlington
Why the community that sings together stays together
Feeling sufficiently socially connected guards against physical and mental illness
The gig economy is nothing new for musicians – here’s what their ‘portfolio careers’ can teach us
Musicians can survive under these circumstances by developing important overarching and transferable skills
The album at 70: a format in decline?
Album sales – as hard copies and digital files – have halved since 2010
In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
Australian women are writing music that tackles colonisation and misogyny