Emma Winston

• PhD Student at Goldsmiths University of London

Lofi hip hop is a musical genre which is distributed and mediated entirely via the internet, and which, to our knowledge, is currently unexamined academically. This article serves as an introductory investigation into the genre, which we hope may inspire further research and perhaps call into question existing trends in the analysis of “internet-bo...

The ukulele has, in various guises, and amongst various overlapping and distinct social worlds, experienced a spectacular growth in popularity over the course of the last ten years. This is well-documented in journalistic and popular cultural sources, but remains virtually unexplored academically, which I aim to begin correcting in my ongoing docto...

Nightcore is a previously academically unexamined music scene, which exists entirely online and operates as a unique micro-subculture within the broader context of internet-based electronic music. A scene born on the internet in the early 2000s, nightcore has recently experienced something of a surge in popularity, and now refers most broadly to hy...

In the springtime of 2020, amid what I felt sure were the final throes of my research into the contemporary resurgence of the ukulele, my timeline (and, like millions of others, my world) was thrown into disarray by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Separated from my familiar support networks, I found myself invited by a London-based ukulele...