Tim Laurie (Sydney): I Want Candy: Agency and Evaluation in Music Criticism. Michael Laurence Woods (TCD): What It Is? A Question on the Derivation of Musical Meaning. Jonathan Cordero (CLU): Unveiling Satan’s Wrath: Aesthetics and Ideology in Anti-Christian Heavy Metal. From Music and Politics, political pop, political fans? Mark Pedelty and Linda Keefe on a content analysis of music fan blogs. Online music moves to the cloud: The Pandora experience isn’t much like being guided by a person working at a radio station — at least, not yet. From PopMatters, Jay Somerset on the day the (AM) music died; Kirby Fields on filesharing from Carter to Obama; and Karen Snell on the ever-changing "technical aesthetic" and its influence in the music classroom. Virtual worlds, real money: Can social games solve music’s woes? A review of Platonism, Music and the Listener’s Share by Christopher Norris. How can one capture the vastness of music in a single gesture? A Musical Instrument Museum on a global scale, a collection of musical implements representing every single country in the world. The hunt for universal music: We're born with a taste for music — but is it hard-wired or determined by the culture we live in? A review of The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud by Patrik Wikstrom. A look at the evolution of hip hop (by natural selection). An article on the 50 worst hip-hop fails of all time. From The Believer, Orientalist Party Music: In the early 1960s, America began devouring Arabic rock-and-roll records made by Middle Eastern guys living in Brooklyn; and an artice on Tammy Wynette’s “Woman to Woman,” the hard-boiled feminist manifesto you’ve never heard. Mental Machine Music: Eric Casero on the musical mind in the Digital Age.
