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Review Open access Sep 2026

The Political Economy of Algorithmic Curation: Music Platforms, Cultural Capital, and Sustainability in the African Global South

This paper develops a critical political economy account of how algorithmic curation on digital music streaming platforms is reshaping cultural production, cultural capital, and creator sustainability, defined here as income adequacy and career longevity, across three Sub-Saharan music economies between 2015 and 2025....

D. Kebenei, A. Kirui · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Does the listener care? Emotional resonance and connection in the age of algorithmic music

As generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models achieve high fidelity in mimicking musical structures and timbres, debates surrounding the role of human agency in listener engagement emerge. As the music industry moves to algorithmic music to ensure efficiency, it is not yet clear whether audiences are appreciating m...

A. Kirui · 0 citations
#generative ai Open access Aug 2026

The ‘Plasticity’ of the Algorithm: Affective Labour, Machine Inference, and the Defence of Kibagenge in Kenya’s Creative Economy

It is argued that Western algorithms are deficient relative to the realities of two interlocking East African relational constructs, Kibagenge, and Utu, in Kenya and protecting the future of labour related to African performance will require transcending Western theories of discrete emotions and developing forms of tec...

Silas Temba, A. Kirui · 0 citations

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