Jonathan A. Neufeld (Charleston): Musical Ontology: Critical, not Metaphysical. Adam Behr and Matt Brennan (Edinburgh) and Martin Cloonan (Glasgow): Cultural Value and Cultural Policy: Some Evidence from the World of Live Music. Deena Weinstein (DePaul): Just So Stories: How Heavy Metal Got Its Name — A Cautionary Tale. When robots write songs: Bach, Coltrane, McCartney — new algorithms can produce original compositions in the style of the greats, but are those works actually art? David Hajdu on how parody videos transformed pop music — for better and worse. The Shazam effect: Record companies are tracking download and search data to predict which new songs will be hits — this has been good for business, but is it bad for music? The end of the iPod: Goodbye to the little box that changed everything. Why do people care less about music as they get older, and why does sad music make us feel happy? Alice Robb investigates. You'd be amazed to learn how much music is disappearing. Dimitry Elias Leger on honoring The Source magazine, once a hip-hop culture staple. Steven Caldwell Brown reviews Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by S. Alexander Reed. Annie Lowrey on how the music middle-class is getting squeezed. What happened to all the music blogs? Wild Honey Pie embraces a new model. Kim Kardashian may not have broken the Internet, but Psy’s Gangnam Style literally just did. Robin Sloan Bechtel on how Megadeth, Arizona built the Internet.
