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Title: | The costliest signals of authenticity? How iconic deaths transform audience reception in hip-hop | Authors: | Ma, Xiangyu | Keywords: | Social Sciences | Issue Date: | 2024 | Source: | Ma, X. (2024). The costliest signals of authenticity? How iconic deaths transform audience reception in hip-hop. Poetics, 107, 101943-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101943 | Journal: | Poetics | Abstract: | 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 to the valuations of their antemortem work. Such death-induced changes to audience valuations are mediated by the ability of some deaths – what we term iconic deaths – to act as costly signals of an artist's authenticity. Iconic deaths that better signal authenticity produce greater death-induced improvements in audience valuations. Such costly signaling effects are more salient within discredited subgenres of hip-hop. We show how this is robust to complementary explanations, such as sympathetic eulogizing or audience expansion effects. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182078 | ISSN: | 0304-422X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101943 | Schools: | School of Social Sciences | Rights: | © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the copyright holder. The Version of Record is available online at http://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101943. | Fulltext Permission: | embargo_20270107 | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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