Inside the Making of a Debut Album

A behind-the-scenes feature on a first full-length release.

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About the author

Bedour Alagraa is Assistant professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summer Walker

Bedour Alagraa

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A feature on independent distribution models in the streaming era.