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Writing on music, culture, politics, and more from a music studies professor who cares about feelings.
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Good Cry (opens the original)
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Dear Friends, This week, we* launched the second season of cry baby (the podcast) with an excellent interview about music listening technologies. Sarah speaks beautifully and compellingly about her interest in the mechanics and history of the jukebox—but most importantly, she connects its overlooked role to larger histories of popular music in ways that might surprise you. Check it out here or wherever you get em. In other news, the last week of September finally brought me that ounce of space n
13 | Jukeboxes and Listening Technologies with Dr. Sarah Lindmark (opens the original)
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Welcome back to cry baby podddddThe first episode of season two features my good friend and colleague Sarah Lindmark, Assistant Professor of the Practice at Boston College. Our conversation focuses on her research into jukebox technology and the ways it informed the prehistory of electronic dance music djs. We also talk about listening technologies more broadly, the status of live performance, and the cathartic force of Ke$ha’s recent tour. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="http
Feeling Foreverrrrr (opens the original)
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I did it. I read the book. I hated it as much as I thought I would, and I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who was waiting for a deep dive; the truth is, I stopped every five paragraphs or so to scribble furiously about how truly bizarre the thinking seems to me. It turns out that I simply can’t reflect on all of it in this space.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IHKV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
What is Popular Music Studies? (opens the original)
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Is it possible for popular music studies to issue state of the field reports? The idea came to me when I was, for the first time in my life, assigned a research assistant. Working the way I do (which tends not to involve methods that process large amounts of data) and fresh on a brand new job, I was fairly unsure how to come up with work for this student to do that wouldn’t be a waste of her time. In the end, I decided on something I intended to be a relatively approachable bit of data collectio
Good Cry (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Just a quick update before we get into it: August was, as I wrote last week, terrible. But! Some good things did happen, and I’m happy that I can share one of them with you. The Gender and Sexuality Studies section of the Society for Ethnomusicology invited me to give a virtual lecture, which was a real delight for me. I presented material from both my book and my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Pop Music,</
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