By Carlos Roberto Ramirez
“De aquí como el coquí” es un refrán popular entre puertorriqueñes que se usa para afirmar la identidad local y sentido de pertenencia. El refrán tiene sentido porque el coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) es endémico del archipiélago, y su nombre es una onomatopeya del canto que los machos utilizan para… Read More
By Chase Castle
The rapid fame of an AI-generated gospel tribute song titled “We Are Charlie Kirk” highlights strange new connections between American evangelicalism, political identity, and social media culture. Gospel here refers to both biblical-inflected language and a varied set of musical idioms that have circulated across Read More
By Duncan McCallum
https://doi.org/10.63473/AQRH9404 I believe there is a productive space between two neologisms from the past decade of musicology and sound studies—“hungry listening” and the “sonic… Read More
By Destiny Meadows
https://doi.org/10.63473/WXDQ5690 Every four years, the Summer Olympic Games brings together over 200 countries to celebrate the highest levels of athleticism on the world stage. Read More
By Varun Chandrasekhar
The album cover to the Wonder Years’s third album Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing Read More
By Elisabeth Roberts
https://doi.org/10.63473/XHWJ7854 In November 2024, Canadian rapper Drake filed to sue Universal Music Group and Spotify in the wake of an ongoing feud with… Read More
By Dan DiPiero
https://doi.org/10.63473/MNNX1074 Big Feelings and Critical NostalgiaReleased in January 2024, I Saw the TV Glow (ISTTVG) caused an improbable sensation for an arthouse film that never quite coheres… Read More
By Mercedes Liska, Translated By Cibele Moura
https://doi.org/10.63473/YIFW8515 En el año 2017, comenzó un periodo de transformaciones profundas para las luchas democráticas por el derecho al aborto libre… Read More
By Kendall Hatch Winter
https://doi.org/10.63473/EIAB1912 The author would like to thank Adriana da Silva for providing Spanish-language transcription and translation assistance. When Lin-Manuel Miranda hosted Saturday Night Live on October… Read More
By Ryan Blakeley
https://doi.org/10.63473/SESI2454 In January 2019, Warner Music Group signed a twenty-album contract with the artist Endel. And then in May 2023, Endel… Read More
By Stefan Greenfield-Casas, James Denis Mc Glynn
https://doi.org/10.63473/DIMW5020 Relatively recently, in a galaxy quite close to home, literary scholar Gerry Canavan vividly captured the ambiguity that shrouded the release of Rogue… Read More
By Heeseung Lee
https://doi.org/10.63473/YNKE7548 “Y Volver, Volver~, Volver!” (And Come Back, Come Back~, Come Back!): as the explosive chorus of his signature song still mourns,… Read More
By Michael Gallope
https://doi.org/10.63473/GLCO3477 Consider five variations on music’s ineffability: Disjunction. Music can be magnetic—attracting very specific meanings and affects in one moment in ways that seem… Read More
By Allison Jerzak, Nick Seaver
https://doi.org/10.63473/EDTJ7893 In this conversation, Allison Jerzak spoke with cultural anthropologist Nick Seaver, who studies the intersection of people, technology, and culture. His 2022 book,… Read More
By Anne Monique Pace
https://doi.org/10.63473/GOZG3656 Reflections on the Errant Voices Conference, April 2022 Consider the adjective “errant.” The word might describe a misbehaving child careening through the galleries… Read More
By Alejandro L. Madrid
https://doi.org/10.63473/CBMO3112 On the evening of August 8, 2008, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater of Bloomington, Indiana, opened its doors for the premiere of ¡Únicamente la verdad!… Read More
By Cana F. McGhee
https://doi.org/10.63473/WBQO6729 Conferences are inflection points: moments where energies come together and reflect outward in new directions. The following is a report of the May… Read More
By David Miller, Joshua Rifkin
https://doi.org/10.63473/MVSM7537 In this conversation, the first of a multi-part interview series with performers, scholars, and pedagogues of early music, historically informed performance, and related… Read More
By Nadine Hubbs
https://doi.org/10.63473/NWTZ4884 The phrase “quintessentially American” arises frequently with reference to country music. In Ken Burns’s 2019 Country Music documentary series and many other… Read More
By Leah Batstone
https://doi.org/10.63473/XAAC7604 The international attention Ukraine has received in the 270 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its sovereign neighbor is unprecedented. The world has… Read More