In this podcast Amir and Aileen speak about protest music and the initial origins of it, as well as how social media has contributed to the development of protest music. And finally the future of protest music, in regards to if it will continue to grow.
Aileen is a Ethnomusicologist, Global Irish musics specialist, and Popular Music scholar with research interests in ethnicity, identity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the traditional and popular music’s of Ireland, UK, North America, and Australia. She has a PhD in Ethnomusicology, from the University of Chicago. She has won various awards such as the HERA travel award in 2015 and the Fulbright Alumnus award in 2018
Twitter - @aileen_dillane
Amir Najib is a Student journalist from Coventry University currently interning at Irish Tech News, his main interests are in sports, entertainment and cryptocurrency. He hopes to one day work in the journalism industry where he is doing multimedia on the subjects he enjoys. Twitter - @4mirN9
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