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Love it or hate it, TikTok is changing the music industry

“Tik-a-Tok-a-Who?”, was Adele’s response to her management’s suggestion to promote her music to younger audiences on Tiktok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance. “If everyone’s making music for the TikTok, who’s making music for my generation?”, she asked. Adele might resist, but the platform has nonetheless been popularising and promoting her song Easy on me, with creators using it in almost [...]

Legendary band Yothu Yindi and their trailblazing call for a treaty

Few musicians have had as profound an impact on Australia’s cultural and political life as those in Yothu Yindi. Formed in 1986, this revolutionary band brought together Indigenous musicians from the Yolŋu town of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land and their non-Indigenous, or Balanda, friends who played in a Darwin band called the Swamp Jockeys. Their union became fertile ground for [...]

How hip-hop in the classroom is raising the volume of learning: 4 essential reads

Scholars trace the origin of hip-hop to a “back to school jam” that DJ Kool Herc threw in an apartment in the South Bronx in 1973. Today the music genre is one of the most popular in the U.S. In July 2021, Congress formally designated November as Hip Hop History Month.“ In recognition of the first year hip-hop history has a monthlong spotlight, The [...]

Adele has successfully asked Spotify to remove ‘shuffle’ from albums. Here’s why that’s important for musicians

Adele’s long awaited, newly released fourth studio album, 30 was guaranteed to make waves in the international music scene as Adele’s first full-length record in over six years. This week it made the news for a different reason. In response to Adele’s request, Spotify has hidden the shuffle button from all albums accessed via the streaming music platform. In a viral tweet immediately [...]

What’s your school closures playlist? Why music should be part of parents’ pandemic survival strategy

With pandemic school closures in place in Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island until Jan. 17, and other provinces on watch, music could be important for maintaining the well-being of children and families. Many are concerned about the effects of closures on student and [...]

Terrorists who use the internet are less successful

There is too much focus on online radicalisation, says Joe Whittaker, when this is just one of the factors that [...]
US Cold War hostility towards Chinese due to the influence of Truman's nationalist beliefs, new research argues

Research suggests the failure of the Truman administration to pursue rapprochement with Chinese Communists before the founding of the People’s [...]
If the US and China quarrel, the planet suffers, author says

Sophia Kalantzakos’ scholarship focuses on how the climate crisis impacts global power politics. Her book China and the Geopolitics of [...]
Professionals are trending in a left and liberal direction; on most issues, blue collar workers are not

Professionals and managers are becoming more liberal while blue collar workers, who were once the backbone of leftist politics in [...]
COVID rule breakers more likely to be condemned by those with opposing political views

People are more likely to condemn COVID rule-breaking by those who have opposing political views to their own, according to [...]

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