Listening for Foremothers in Rosalía’s Lux
From polemical reworkings of flamenco idioms and the 13th-century Occitan romance Flamenca in El mal querer (2018) to… Read More
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Out of the Lab
By HPrizm
Editor’s note: The author, a noted hip hop artist, intellectual, and mystic,… Read More
En Puerto Rico, la soberanía suena como el coquí / In Puerto Rico, Sovereignty Sounds Like a Coquí
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
“We Are Charlie Kirk” and the Gospel According to AI
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
“A Hungry Sonic Color Line: Toward a Musicology of Settler Listening in Canada”
By Duncan McCallum
I believe there is a productive space between two neologisms from the past decade of musicology and sound studies—“hungry listening” and the “sonic color… Read More
Mediating the Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies
By Destiny Meadows
Every four years, the Summer Olympic Games brings together over 200 countries to celebrate the highest levels of athleticism on the world stage. Throughout… Read More
If I Die, I Wanna Die in the Suburbs: Pop-Punk and the Crisis of Neoliberalism
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
Not Like Us: AI and Aberrant Listening
By Elisabeth Roberts
In November 2024, Canadian rapper Drake filed to sue Universal Music Group and Spotify in the wake of an ongoing feud with American… Read More
Queer Affects and Big Feelings: On The I Saw the TV Glow Soundtrack
By Dan DiPiero
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 into… Read More
Sonoridades movilizadas: repertorios afectivos de la lucha por la legalización del aborto
By Mercedes Liska, Translated By Cibele Moura
En el año 2017, comenzó un periodo de transformaciones profundas para las luchas democráticas por el derecho al aborto libre… Read More
Hamilton’s Voter Mobilization “Remixes” Since 2016
By Kendall Hatch Winter
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
“Welcome to the Sound Wellness Revolution”: Endel’s AI-Generated Soundscapes and the Commodification of Passive Listening
By Ryan Blakeley
In January 2019, Warner Music Group signed a twenty-album contract with the artist Endel. And then in May 2023, Endel came… Read More
“We Are What They Grow Beyond”: Visions (and Sounds) of a Transnational Star Wars
By Stefan Greenfield-Casas, James Denis Mc Glynn
Relatively recently, in a galaxy quite close to home, literary scholar Gerry Canavan vividly captured the ambiguity that shrouded the release of Rogue One:… Read More
Vicente Fernández, Not Just for Latinx Students but for All
By Heeseung Lee
“Y Volver, Volver~, Volver!” (And Come Back, Come Back~, Come Back!): as the explosive chorus of his signature song still mourns, Vicente… Read More
Five Variations on Music’s Ineffability
By Michael Gallope
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
Behind the Music Recommendation Curtain: Computing Taste with Nick Seaver
By Allison Jerzak, Nick Seaver
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
Errantry in Three Folds
By Anne Monique Pace
Reflections on the Errant Voices Conference, April 2022 Consider the adjective “errant.” The word might describe a misbehaving child careening through the galleries of… Read More
Deadness and the Post-Mortem Imagination in Gabriela Ortiz’s ¡Únicamente la verdad!
By Alejandro L. Madrid
On the evening of August 8, 2008, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater of Bloomington, Indiana, opened its doors for the premiere of ¡Únicamente la verdad! (Only… Read More
Listening, Histories, and the Anthropocene
By Cana F. McGhee
Conferences are inflection points: moments where energies come together and reflect outward in new directions. The following is a report of the May 2022… Read More
On Conducting, Collaboration, and Curiosity in Early Music: Joshua Rifkin in Interview
By David Miller, Joshua Rifkin
In this conversation, the first of a multi-part interview series with performers, scholars, and pedagogues of early music, historically informed performance, and related topics,… Read More