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The Satellites Behind Subscription Listening

Brian Fauteux, author of "Music in Orbit," writes about the legacy of satellite radio
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RACE MUSIC 21: ETUDES/GROOVES/INTERLUDES

Guthrie Ramsey, author of "Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop," announces his new album RACE MUSIC 21, based on the themes from his book.
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Uncovering Stand-Up Comedy’s Feminist Media History

Hattie Noel was a trailblazer of the stand-up comedy form. While the visual archive shows her constrained in the controlling images of Disney’s hippo and Hollywood’s maid, her comedy albums tell a different story of Black representation.
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Music Streaming around the World

by David Hesmondhalgh (Author)
Oct 2025
Open Access

Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality

by Birgit Abels (Author), Patrick Eisenlohr (Author)
Sep 2025
Open Access

Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago

by Anna Maria Busse Berger (Editor), Henry Spiller (Editor)
Mar 2025
Open Access

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race

by Amy Coddington (Author)
Jul 2024
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