An investigation of music’s power by one of its great polymaths
Josh Kun
Josh Kun is a professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (University of California Press).
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A Nightstick Turned into a Song
Two new books and a documentary cue up the soundtrack of the black-power movement.
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Death Rattle
A new musical movement turns Mexican drug violence into catchy sing-alongs.
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Sing, Memory
Pop music is obsessed with the past—and that’s not good.