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With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur

The album is an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to recalibrate the way black women and art have been pejoratively interlaced.

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Kicking and Screaming: the Rejection of Tired Tropes by Indie Rock’s Next Generation of Women

The resulting candor is a measure of how layered and arresting women’s experiences can be for those songwriters brave enough to remain unflinching.

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Confronting the Damaging Myth of the Artistic Genius

“Geniuses” rely on a voracious public ready to forgive the previous offense, as long as the coming one even is more deliciously shocking.

The Case for Napster, Some Fifteen Years Later: Hindsight and Regret in 2013's Downloaded

Napster is the catalyst which was needed to spearhead the movement. But sadly, it is also the ship that had to sink so that others learned how not to approach these critical issues.

MusicA. MartineJanuary 30, 2018file sharing, napster, p2p, metallica, music, music industry, RIAA, spotify, tower record, blockbuster, '90s, dr. dre, lars ulrich Comment

On Value versus Profit

Evidently, an artist has to make ends meet, and that sometimes means more practical decision-making. But this should never distract from the idea that art should not be corporatized. Rosy-colored, right? Hear me out.

MusicA. MartineJanuary 8, 2018value, profit, record labels, music industry, file sharing, commercial, business, philosophy, ethics, morals, dilemmaComment

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