The costliest signals of authenticity? How iconic deaths transform audience reception in hip-hop

The death of an artist can act as a costly signal of their authenticity, and cause enduring changes in audience valuations of their work. Drawing on novel digital trace data of audience evaluations from a major online music community, we show how the death of an hip-hop artist induces improvements t...

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Main Author: Ma, Xiangyu
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182078
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English