The Paper is an indirect critique of Adorno's Theory on the Regression of Listening and a brief analysis of Keith Negus' take on the growing and changing roles of the Audience in Popular Music. The study takes a look at the Audience from the perspective of Contemporary African Popular Music. The...

"This book explores how politics and political processes in Africa have been impacted by the use of music in the dissemination of political messages for political campaigns, challenging the establishment and articulating the ills in society and governance, as well as other matters that generally...

European-American racism has used African America as a screen on which to project repressed emotion, particularly sex and aggression. One aspect of this projection is that whites are attracted to black music as a means of expressing aspects of themselves they cannot adequately express through...