Popular Music

As the global music phenomenon turns 50 a hip-hop professor reflects on the word ‘dope’

Hip-hop pioneers redefined ‘dope’ as cool. But it endures as an expression of respect, praise and illegal substances.

AD Carson, The Conversation
· Apr 14, 2023 · 11:30 pm
How Kabir Suman’s album of urban ballads, ‘Tomake Chai’, caused a ‘culture-quake’ in Bengali music

A Bengali album 30 years ago spoke of those invisible to most, broke all syntax of music, and gave an entire generation a vocabulary of the present.

Sayandeb Chowdhury
&
Rajendran Narayanan
· Jan 15, 2023 · 11:30 am
From juju to Naija hip hop: What has shaped a century of Nigerian pop music

There’s much more to the country’s music than the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti.

Chijioke Ngobili, The Conversation
· Jul 23, 2022 · 11:30 pm

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