Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia
Published online on September 09, 2024
Abstract
Cultural Sociology, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 174-195, March 2026.
In this article, we analyze how a music genre is reciprocally defined online, through the crowdsourced ‘facts’ of Wikipedia. What are the traditional implicit and explicit exclusionary practices in this sort of genre formation? And how can internet-...
In this article, we analyze how a music genre is reciprocally defined online, through the crowdsourced ‘facts’ of Wikipedia. What are the traditional implicit and explicit exclusionary practices in this sort of genre formation? And how can internet-...