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Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Music such as that of Bob Dylan should be described as and linked to something more specific, such as roots revival. Hip-hop is a music genre. The act of rapping is performed by rappers. When referring to a genre, "hip-hop" should be used, except in circumstances such as "gangsta rap". The word hip-hop is, like most music genres, not capitalized.
Do not use piped links to years in music (e.g., do not write: The Beatles Please Please Me came out in 1963). Instead, sparingly use parentheses after years mentioned in the article, such as The Beatles released Please Please Me in 1963 (see 1963 in music). In discography charts or other specialized forms, it is acceptable to use non-piped ...
Eponymous music people categories, however, generally don't contain biographical articles apart from the article on the person after which they are named, per WP:COPSEP and WP:OCEPON, as they generally should only contain articles regarding the topics for which the person is known. E.g.
Ask Angelia answers reader's question on media's use of capitalization on one race, lowercase on others
I noticed that in the Manual of Style for music there was no guideline for capitalisation of the extra information which is included in the brackets after the song title (e.g. radio edit, acoustic version, extended mix, featuring X, live version etc) and that for consistency reasons there should be an agreement of how this should be capitalised.
“After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word ‘Black’ when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for ...
If you read the lead of MOS:CAPS, you'll see the general principle, "Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia." Looking at the article, I see that the term was made ...