Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2015–Keynote Talk
I’m very excited to be keynoting “Work & Play: Economies of Music,” the 2015 Harvard Graduate Music Forum conference. My talk is “Composing ‘Normal’: uncool labor & the politics of whiteness in Attali, Spandau Ballet, & Taylor Swift.” Here‘s the…
Personal un-branding and the financialization of whiteness: or, let’s actually LISTEN to Taylor Swift as she shakes it off
With the rise of fashion trends like K-Hole’s normcore style and the Gap’s watered-down “Dress Normal” campaign, it seems like “uncool” has itself become a way for elites to opt-out of the imperative to build “cool” human capital, a “cool”…
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