David Hesmondhalgh
@hesmondthing.bsky.social
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Professor of Media, Music and Culture at University of Leeds; Town Councillor in Yorkshire (Green Party); Fellow of the British Academy; lover of music, film, poetry, football, walking, churches; over-user of semi-colons
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It came out of Hunter Biden’s bedroom. Apparently.
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Last year I talked about music industry change with the awesome rapper-turned-academic Jabari Evans for his Uncommon Naledge podcast, and it's now on Spotify and other platforms. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ggf...
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Hyojung Sun and I have published an open access book chapter, about how the pay and conditions of musicians came to be of interest to UK media and politicians, and our (relatively minor) role in what followed. You can access it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...