[MUSIC] Five music links: minority languages, country music, Corey Hart, Britney Spears, Troye Sivan

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• This Chaka Grier article on NOW Toronto looks at how activists for different endangered languages--Wolastoqey, Yiddish, Garifuna--use music to try to keep them alive.


• Hornet Stories takes a look at some gay-themed country music.


• This year, 1980s pop star Corey Hart will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. CBC reports.


• Sarah MacDonald at Noisey takes a look at the prescience of Britney Spears' 1999 song "E-Mail My Heart".


• At Wired, Jason Parham praises the new Troye Sivan single, "Lucky Strike", for its profound curiosity in and empathy for other people.