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Some people just don’t like music

From the journal Class, Race, and Corporate Power, Geoff Ostrove (Oregon): The Political Economy of Financially Successful Independent Hip-Hop Artists. John Tehranian (Southwestern): Guantanamo's Greatest Hits: The Semiotics of Sound and the Protection of Performer Rights Under the Lanham Act. Paulo Emanuel (Aarhus): What is the Relation between the Local and the Global? A Case Study of the Phenomenon of “World Music”. Julian Schaap and Pauwke Berkers (EUR): Grunting Alone? Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music. Adrian Hille and Jurgen Schupp (DIW Berlin): How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills. How to motivate a young musician: Inspiring school and home environments help students develop a sense of themselves as musicians, which prompts them to keep practicing. Some people just don't like music — and that upsets a lot of evolutionary theory. From American History, composed to satisfy the most prurient appetite, a murder ballad gave its listeners the same chills as does the latest cinematic crime thriller; it resonates today, as it did in its own time, beyond the realm of mere curiosity because the themes are familiar to us all. On the twentieth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, Candace Opper investigates copycat suicide and the lasting influence of the Nirvana icon. Why is the American media so fixated on the supposedly imminent demise of classical music? Classical music wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel is facing the heat in his native Venezuela for not speaking out against embattled President Nicolas Maduro.