I’m going to pick a song and a DJ mix. First, the song: KMDFM’s Drug Against War (Overdose Mix) Few things make me happier than running, and this is my favorite song to run to. It’s really fast, and it’s…
Ok, so this is another hugely hard question. Like, we could talk what I hate on the Hot 100: anything ever by Adam Levine, Ed Sheeran, Hozier, Meghan Trainor; anything ever related to The Beatles, Mumford/Arcade/Muse/etc…but that’s boring. That’s a…
My friend and fellow musician and philosophy blogger Leigh Johnson has done the 30-Day Song Challenge every year since 2011, and this year she’s invited others to join her. Because this would be a group thing, and it would be…
There are a lot of reasons to headdesk over this 538 video about Pandora’s Music Genome Project and its application to music therapy. There’s the video itself: some people in my twitter TL found its cinematography too precious. There’s the…
Doreen St Felix’s amazing piece on Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Get My Money” hones in on Rih’s black feminist approach to the flows of (artistic, financial) credit, and to Rih’s method of accounting. “To be a black woman and genius, is…
The virtue of genre-transcending eclecticism is the underlying theme of Jonathan Shecter’s March 2015 interview with Diplo. I want to read this interview closely, to consider how exactly this diversity is described, and in particular how Diplo’s and Shecter’s accounts…
I have a new book out with Zer0, Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, neoliberalism. Here’s the blurb: When most people think that “little girls should be seen and not heard,” a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that’s…
I’m extremely excited to be part of Liana M. Silva’s “Gender & Voice” series over at SoundingOut!. My piece went up today, and you can find it here. Though it’s focused on the role of “loud” feminist voices in post-feminist…
This summer (May-June 2015) I’m teaching a fully course on Gender, Aesthetics, & Media. It’s listed at the 4000/5000 level, which means it’s open to both upper-level undergraduates (4000) and graduate students (5000). Because the course is fully online, any student…
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…
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