Category: Features and Fun Stuff
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The Myth of the DIY Diva: Slayyyter’s Starfucker, the Internet Pop Star, and Auteur Theory
By Connor Telford The world is obsessed with the grind. Between nepotism baby discourse, Twitter campaigns, and Genius lyric annotations, it’s not enough for pop music fanatics, and by proxy, the entire internet, to just enjoy celebrity content anymore — it has to be homegrown, ethically sourced, intentionally crafted celebrity content. But it also has…
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Spotlighting Owensboro’s ROMP Festival
ROMP Festival is an annual Bluegrass festival held in celebration of Owensboro, Kentucky’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum. AROUSE’s own Ella Cope attended in 2022 and captured some stunning shots. Take a look back below, and be sure to get your tickets for the 2024 installment of ROMP Fest from June 26 to June…
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B-Boys and Buckeyes: Dr. Jason Rawls’ Journey From Hip-Hop to TEDxOSU
By Brie Blevins It is July 1988 and a group of young boys were sitting around a boombox on the south side of Columbus listening to an emerging genre: hip-hop. A song began with a drumbeat over an electronic bass line being updated with turntable scratching and talk box ad-libs. The song, “You Gots To…