Luis Tsukayama-Cisneros's public scholarship, photography and visual documentation
Why are we buying physical records like vinyl or CDs again these days? This article shows changes in music, how the culture of it is changing and what probably could happen over the next five years.
Read MoreThis is just a personal opinion: a lot of people have been saying for a few years now that contemporary music sucks, that it is not as good as music was in the 80s or 90s…. And I kind of agree with that. I listen to a lot of music, I make music, but I am also a social scientist.
Read MoreWhat is the meaning of music to a society? Everyone has a special relationship with music, but not everyone can very clearly say what makes a song, a style or band special to someone. By looking at the cases of the two grandfathers of electronic music (Kraftwerk in Germany, Yellow Magic Orchestra in Japan), and how electronic music emerged in Germany and Japan in the 1970s, we can explore the relationship between popular music and the social, historical and cultural context in which it appears.
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