Welcome!

I'm Amy Coddington, an assistant professor of music at Amherst College.

My interdisciplinary research explores how the inner workings of the music industries influence the sound and style of popular music.

​My book How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race (out September 2023 from University of California Press) explores how the radio industry facilitated hip hop's introduction into the musical mainstream in the 1980s and early 1990s.