Mediating the Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies
Every four years, the Summer Olympic Games brings together over 200 countries to celebrate the highest levels of athleticism on the world stage. Throughout the… Read More
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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 rapper… 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 a… 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 y gratuito… 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 8, 2016,… 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 to… 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: A… 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 Fernández… 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 so right… 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, Computing… 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 the… 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 the… 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 “Ruptures… 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, David… Read More
Is Country Music Quintessentially American? Or White?
By Nadine Hubbs
The phrase “quintessentially American” arises frequently with reference to country music. In Ken Burns’s 2019 Country Music documentary series and many other instances, it… Read More
Ukraine’s Avantgarde: A Short History of a Long Tradition
By Leah Batstone
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 never before… Read More
More Troubling Failure(s): Situating Bodies and Research in Art
By Tomie Hahn
Ed. note: This essay is an offshoot from a lecture originally presented as the AMS Committee on Women and Gender Annual Endowed Lecture. Fred Maus… Read More
The Dickinson Collection: Adventures in Musicological Research
By Ralph P. Locke, Jürgen Thym
We are perhaps the only musicologists to have made it onto the front page of the National Enquirer, a newspaper that was the nation’s most… Read More
Anti-Asian Hate: It’s Time To Stop Playing “Chinatown, My Chinatown”
By Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Three days after the July 4th mass shooting in Chicago I woke up to a piece of news on the homepage of the World Journal,… Read More