POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY

A Complicated Transformation: BEYONCÉ, “Blue,” and the Politics of Black Motherhood

“Twice the Size of Texas”: Assessing the Importance of Regional Popular Music Scenes – A Case Study of Regional Queensland

Permissiveness on Trial: Sex, Drugs, Rock, the Rolling Stones, and the Sixties Counterculture

BEYONCÉ: Viral Techniques and the Visual Album

Do You Wanna Build a Wall? Remix Tactics in the Age of Trump

Towards an African-American Genealogy of Market and Religion in Rap Music

I Ain’t Sorry: Beyoncé, Serena, and Hegemonic Hierarchies in Lemonade

The Sound of Subterranean Scuzz-Holes: New York Queer Punk in the 1970s

Rappers as Knights-Errant: Classic Allusions in the Mainstreaming of Chinese Rap

Engaging with Environmental Issues as a Musician: Career Perspectives from the Musicians of the Playlist for the Planet

Biopolitics and Media Power in the Online Dance Remake: Remixing Beyoncé’s “***Flawless” in the YouTube Archive

DIY and Popular Music: Mapping an Ambivalent Relationship across Three Historical Case Studies

Fierce, Fabulous, and In/Famous: Beyoncé as Black Diva

Mastering 2.0: The Real or Perceived Threat of DIY Mastering and Automated Mastering Systems

“Everybody Wants to Work with Me”: Collaborative Labor in Hip Hop

“The Banks are Our Stages”: Flo6x8 and Flamenco Performance as Protest in Southern Spain

The Use of Copyright in Digital Times: A Study of How Artists Exercise Their Rights in Norway

The Lives of a Nightclub: Space, Jazz, and Self in Live at the Village Vanguard

“Home sweet home, that’s where I come from, where I got my knowledge of the road and the flow from”: Grime music as an expression of identity in postcolonial London.

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“Straight Outta Nashville”: Allusions to Hip Hop in Contemporary Country Music

Shadow Knows: 34 Scary Tales from the Vaults of Horror

“The Injustice of the Thing”: Negotiating the Song Market in the U. S. Copyright Debates of 1906-1910

The Significance of Cars in the Delta: Robert Johnson’s “Terraplane Blues” (Vocalion 03416, 1937)

Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World

The Twilight’s Last Gleaming: Dialogues and Debts in Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom”

Popular Music, Memory, and Aestheticized Historiography in a Minor Key: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Lament for World War I’s Dead

Doo-wop Italiano: Towards an understanding and appreciation of Italian-American vocal groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s

The Greatest Band That Never Was: Music, Memory, and Boomer Biography

Fare thee well: the final chapter of the grateful dead’s long, strange trip

“Dumb” Performance as a Marker of Authenticity

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music

“They have their music and we have ours”: The Political Woody Guthrie

Alley Oop: 30 One-Hit Wonders—U.S. Pop!

Third Time Lucky: Freshlyground and Cross-border Censorship in Zimbabwe

“Time to Pretend”: The Emerging Adulthood of Indie Rock

Who Slays? Queer Resonances in Beyoncé’s Lemonade

The Power of a Production Myth: PJ Harvey, Steve Albini, and Gendered Notions of Recording Fidelity

Whistlin’ Past Graveyards: The Drive-By Truckers and Southern Identity

Music and Anti-Racism: Musicians’ Involvement in Anti-Racist Spaces

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: Want, Need, and Donald Trump

Afropolitan Projects: Music, Representation, and the Politics of Belonging in Australia

Electronic Dunes and Downtown Vibes. The Social Construction of an Underground Electro Scene in Tunisia

Music and Movement, Ragas and Dances: Orientalism, “Jugalbandhi,“ and the Shankar Brothers

The High Priest of Rock and Roll: The Reception of Elvis Presley in Denmark, 1956–1960

From the Roars of Hurricanes to the Chords of Standards: How We Used Popular Music in the Aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico