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. |