Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so.
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Confinement was the essence of Linda Martell’s brief career as a country star in the 1970s – and it’s the exact sort of fate that Beyoncé has sought to avoid.
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
Her new album, ‘Cowboy Carter,’ arrives at a moment when country music’s reputation as overwhelmingly white is finally starting to crack.
Doc Watson’s popularity and influence came from his virtuosic guitar playing, powerful voice, broad musical taste, folksy storytelling and lack of pretense.
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.
A team of music psychologists have come up with a new way of classifying music that streaming platforms such as Spotify may find very useful.
Many middle-class parents buy classical CDs because it is supposed to make their kids clever. But a jazz-loving academic has started using her favourite genre in early childhood learning.
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Professor of American Studies and English, Middlebury College
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Senior lecturer, Music education, North-West University
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Doctor of Musical Arts Student, University of Southern California
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Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Unizik Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, University of Southern California
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Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar at Bar-Ilan University and Honorary Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University