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Author Alexandra Apolloni

Alexandra Apolloni

Alexandra Apolloni

Lecturer, UCLA; Academic Correspondent, Hippo Reads

Alexandra Apolloni is Hippo Reads' Academic Correspondent for Music. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA and is a lecturer in the UCLA Music Industry Program. She studies voice and identity and has written about singers including Dusty Springfield, Martha Reeves, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Beth Ditto, and others for The Toast, the Oxford University Press music blog, and a variety of other publications. She is currently working on a book about girl singers in 1960s London.

Pop Divas Turn an “Old” Sound into Power and Experience

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Society & Culture
In 2014 Aretha Franklin released her first album since 1985: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Whether critics praised it or panned it, they wanted to talk about age.   “At age 72," the...

Fighting On and Singing Along with Prince’s ‘Baltimore’

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History, Society & Culture
Prince's song “Baltimore” calls for justice – but it also calls for dancing. And while it might seem incongruous to want to get people up and dancing at a moment like this, the sound of this kind of music - and the way it moves people to move their bodies and come together – can have political power.

Sex, Theft, and Freedom: Top Summer Music Reads

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture
Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity by Joanna Demers The recent court battle between Marvin Gaye's estate and “Blurred Lines” artists Pharrell Williams and Robin...

Rocking the Library in LA

Alexandra Apolloni
Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, History
UCLA brings the punk scene to life
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