Protected: Work Songs: Tiny Desk Concerts Reimagines Music Video and Public Radio
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University
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Protected: Work Songs: Tiny Desk Concerts Reimagines Music Video and Public Radio
And You Love The Game: Stream-Pop as a Never-Ending Scavenger Hunt
Eric Harvey / Grand Valley State University
Eric Harvey discusses how contemporary music stardom pulls fans and commentators into a rabbit hole of never-ending engagement.
Read more”Real EMO”: Mythologizing and Marketing EMO Music
Francesca Sobande / Cardiff University
Francesca Sobande explores emo’s nostalgic resurgence, raising questions about authenticity, youth culture, mythologization, and the role of industrial and commercial activities in shaping the genre.
Read moreOver*Flow: “I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University
Wendy Peters argues that the contemporary and decentralized context of music production, distribution, and social media promotion diversified and transformed pop music by enabling Lil Nas X—a Black and openly gay star—to rise.
Read moreBundling Merch into the Comfort Economy
Alyx Vesey / University of Alabama
Alyx Vesey analyzes how artistic entrepreneurship in the music industry through the use of merchandise has changed in the wake of COVID-19 concert cancellations, as well as how this merchandise forms part of “a consumerist response to societal collapse.”
Read moreSelf-Promotion in 15 Seconds: Finding Mainstream Success Through Memeable Sound Clips on TikTok
Meghan Grosse / Washington College
Looking at artists like Lil Nas X, Abigail Barlow, and Absofacto, Meghan Grosse explores how viral success on TikTok is affecting the mainstream music industry.
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