Artificial Intelligence and Popular Music
Posted: September 23rd, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence and Popular MusicWe invite submissions for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on the theme of artificial intelligence and popular music.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading rapidly through creative and cultural sectors, including popular music, and is already proving to be a disruptive technology. The recording industry, recalling earlier technological upheavals such as MP3 files and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, has moved quickly to urge lawmakers to regulate AI. This can be seen in recent U.S. legislative proposals to establish intellectual property rights protecting artists’ voices (the “NO FAKES Act” and the “No AI FRAUD Act”) and the widely publicized EU AI Act, which outlines risks associated with AI systems and which has faced backlash from many stakeholders in the European cultural industries.