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…
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”…
Recent shifts in the aesthetic value of audio loudness is a symptom of broader shifts in attitudes about social harmony and techniques for managing social “noise.” Put simply, this shift is from maximalism to responsive variability. (“Responsive variability” is the…
Frank Swain has a hearing aid that sonifies ambient WiFi signals. A Bluetooth-enabled digital hearing aid paired with a specially programmed iPhone (and its WiFi detector), the device, named Phantom Terrains, “translate[s] the characteristics of wireless networks into sound….Network identifiers,…
“And when I’m working on the weekend I’ll look back and think how we had the club goin up on a Tuesday” ILOVEMAKONNEN’s song “Tuesday” is about going out dancing and drinking on a Tuesday night because “Working graveyard, shifts…
[This is another one of my thinking-out-loud posts in which I work through a text, thinking as I write. So, undercooked, imprecise, too much bloat, etc etc you’ve been warned…] “Habeas viscus” is Alexander Weheliye’s term for the queerly racialized…
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