The Ethics of Jazz

Is this new medium reducing art to a formulaic hunt for virality or is it inspiring innovation and increasing independent artists' opportunity for exposure?

What can El Sistema tell us about the politics of music education? What's the right way to promote inclusion?

Are the boundaries of genre serving to create divides based on race in the music industry? And how might Billboard be complicit?

Hip-hop has a complex relationship with old school and new school, but J. Cole might bring the genre to a more stylistically inclusive middle ground.