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Prof. Carlo Rotella has a new story for The New York Times Magazine exploring the emerging roots-music scene, noting how the genre is having a moment, even in the age of the algorithm: "Endlessly in demand as guest stars on other artists’ songs, they are both generating and riding the cultural momentum as American popular music makes one of its regular cyclical swings back toward acoustic instruments and natural voices, the values of community and craft and a heightened sense of connection to the soulful experience and hard-won wisdom of those who lived in the past."