What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history
The story of the Blue Notes is inextricable from apartheid’s exiling of the musical imagination
Music
Music that you help make: composition for video gaming draws on tradition and tech
Anchored by history and tradition, and enabled by cutting edge technology
Beatles: Abbey Road at 50 is a marker of how pop music grew up in the 1960s
Even at the end, they continued to point the way forward
It’s wrong to cut and paste Global North policies onto Africa’s music industries
People make, distribute, and consume music differently in Liberia
Bruce Springsteen: an Aristotle for our times
‘I wanted to hear, and I wanted to know the whole American story.’
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