Criticizing Lana Del Rey (Rachel Skaggs)
Internet outrage at a mixed review of Lana Del Rey’s new album. What do we learn about celebrity today?
Country Music Songwriting (Rachel Skaggs)
Rachel Skaggs (Ohio State University) describes her research on making it in country music songwriting.
Old Town Road and Authentic Country Music
We discuss Old Town Road, a viral hit that rose to the top of the country music chart, and was subsequently delisted. Cristobal Young is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He is the author of The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich (2017, Stanford University Press). […]