From polemical reworkings of flamenco idioms and the 13th-century Occitan romance Flamenca in El mal querer (2018) to feminine interventions in the Caribbean-flavored musical eclecticism of Motomami (2022), Catalan-born Rosalía Vila Tobella knows how to make a splash. Her fourth studio album, Lux,… Read More
Editor’s note: The author, a noted hip hop artist, intellectual, and mystic, resituates the actors of hip hop, electroacoustic music, musique concrète, and musique électronique as points of egress, rather than progress, in a historical study of… Read More
“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
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
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 line”—that suggests a framework for understanding the politics of listening in Canada, and perhaps beyond. The term “hungry listening,” which I draw on from… Read More
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 twentieth and twenty-first centuries, viewers have turned on televisions (or, as of recently, logged onto streaming platforms) to see athletic feats, individual and… Read More
The album cover to the Wonder Years’s third album Suburbia, I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing Read More
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 recognizable genre. Though horrifying, it can’t be called a horror movie; at the same time, though highly stylized and full of teenaged existentialism, it’s… Read More
En el año 2017, comenzó un periodo de transformaciones profundas para las luchas democráticas por el derecho al aborto libre y gratuito en Argentina. Entre marzo y agosto de 2018, se realizó a nivel nacional una serie de manifestaciones en apoyo a las instancias legislativas del… Read More
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 Star Wars Story (2016). The second Star Wars feature film to be produced after Disney’s well-publicized acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, Rogue One was… Read More