pushing sound studies into the red since 2009

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SO! Amplifies: Basilica Hudson’s 24-HOUR DRONE

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Ed. Note: We wanted to run this piece in advance of the Basilica Hudson’s SoundScape event taking place this Friday, September 14 – Sunday, September 16, 2018.


 Our

Amplifying Du Bois at 150

 forum will return next week.

— “But

 why

?” Three weeks into a new semester and I am packing for another weekend of irresponsible travel.

My Time in the Bush of Drones: or, 24 Hours at Basilica Hudson

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Inspired by the recent

 Black Perspectives

“W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150” Online Forum,

 SO!’s

“W.E.B. Du Bois at 150” amplifies the commemoration of the occasion of the 150

 th

anniversary of Du Bois’s birth in 2018 by examining his all-too-often and all-too-long unacknowledged role in developing, furthering, challenging, and shaping what we now know as “sound studies.” It has been an abundant

Doubled Double Consciousness and the Sound of New Afrikan Expression

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The term mixtape most commonly refers to homemade cassette compilations of music created by individuals for their own listening pleasure or that of friends and loved ones.

Mixtapes v. Playlists: Medium, Message, Materiality

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Inspired by the recent Black Perspectives “W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150” Online Forum, SO!’s “W.E.B. Du Bois at 150” amplifies the commemoration of the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Du Bois’s birth in 2018 by examining his all-too-often and all-too-long unacknowledged role in developing, furthering, challenging, and shaping what we now know as “sound studies.”  It has been an abundant decade-plus (!!!)

Shoo bop shoo bop, my baby, ooooo: W.E.B. Du Bois, Sigmund Freud &amp; Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight

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Flashback to the second day of the recent Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference in Melbourne, Australia (6-8 July 2018). In a few hours, I will perform the first movement of the

 Sonata in E minor

for piano by Florence Price (1887–1953). In the lead-up, I wonder whether Price’s music has ever been performed in Australia before, and feel honored to bring her voice to new audiences.

My Music and My Message is Powerful: It Shouldn’t be Florence Price or “Nothing”

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June 2018 was marked by the amplification of distant warning sounds regarding the fate of abortion rights in the United States. Although within recent months there have been positive steps forward, such as in Ireland and Argentina, within a broader politics of abortion, the medical procedure remains illegal and inaccessible across large swaths of the globe.

Sounds of Life: Fetal Heartbeat Bills and the Politics of Animacy

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I heard them before I saw them. Walking to my apartment in Moscow’s Tverskoy District, I noticed a pulsating mass of sound in the distance. Turning the corner, I found a huge swath of light blue and white and—no longer separated by tall Stalinist architecture—was able to clearly make out the sounds of Spanish.

Listening to the Beautiful Game: The Sounds of the 2018 World Cup

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The family in

 A Quiet Place

(2018) lives a life marked by incessant trauma. Invisible to the hunters who are far more powerful than they are, the family remains safe from direct assault as long as they remain unheard by the hunters, who can’t see them.

They Can Hear Us: Surveillance and Race in “A Quiet Place”

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A sound art multimedia piece by Anthony William Rasmussen


 Funded by the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant


 Map graphics by Julie K. Wesp


 Additional Footage by Oswaldo Mejía

The megalopolis of Mexico City is experienced by many who live there as a network of “known” places, laden with both personal memory and collective meaning.

El Caracol: A Stroll through Space and Time in Mexico City

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The Firesign Theatre are the only group that can claim among its devoted fans both Thom Yorke and John Ashbery; who have an album in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress and also coined a phrase now used as a slogan by freeform giant WFMU;

The Firesign Theatre’s Wax Poetics: Overdub, Dissonance, and Narrative in the Age of Nixon

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 A note on the collection:

Our original Call For Posts was for “Gendered Sounds of South Asia,” as we hoped to use this de-center India and explore terrain beyond cinema.

Gendered Soundscapes of India, an Introduction

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Here at

 Sounding Out!

we like to celebrate World Listening Day (July 18) with a blog series that focuses on the importance of listening. This year, we bring your attention to the role of listening when it comes to the sounds of the K-12 classroom, and by extension, the school.

(Re)Locating Soundscapes of Schooling: Learning to Listen to Children’s Lifeworlds

Here is a distilled introduction to the latest installment of Medieval Sound, Aural Ecology, by series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman.  To read their previous introduction, click here.  To read the first run of the series in 2016, click here.

series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman Here is a distilled introduction to the latest installment of

 Medieval Sound

, Aural Ecology, by series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman.  To read their previous introduction, click here.  To read the first run of the series in 2016, click here.

Sounding Visibility in Anglo-Latin Prose

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St Erkenwald: The Spectacle of Noise

Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice.

Flâneuse&gt;La caminanta

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It’s been ten weeks now that we’ve all been kicking back in our Wranglers. allowing Lil Nas X’s infectious twang in “Old Town Road” to shower us in yeehaw goodness from its perch atop the

 Billboard

Hot 100.

Can’t Nobody Tell Me Nothin: Respectability and The Produced Voice in Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”

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Note: all translations of quotations from linked media are the author’s own.

In early March, viewers of the Argentine public television cooking show

 Cocineros Argentinos

were treated to a jaunty bit of live interstitial music as the program returned from a commercial break.

#MMLPQTP Politics: Soccer Chants, Viral Memes, and Argentina’s 2018 “Hit of the Summer”

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I developed the text I recite in this post as the theoretical framework for an article I’m working on about audio compression. As I was working on the article, I wondered about the role of gender and race in the research on audio compression. Specifically, I was reminded of the central role Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” played into research that led to the mp3.

“I Am Thinking Of Your Voice”: Gender, Audio Compression, and a Sonic Cyberfeminist Theory of Oppression

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“I Dreamed and Loved and Wandered and Sang”: Sounding Blackness in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess

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 Black Perspectives

“W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150”

SO! Podcast #71: Everyday Sounds of Resilience and Being: Black Joy at School

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In “Asesina,” Darell opens the track shouting “Everybody go to the discotek,” a call for listeners to respond to the catchy beat and come dance. In this series on rap in Spanish and Sound Studies, we’re calling you out to the dance floor…and we have plenty to say about it. Your playlist will not sound the same after we’re through.

Everyone’s Going to the Rumba: Trap Latino and the Cuban Internet

This is something you just don’t hear about in the history books. –Alex Hutchinson, Creative Director, Assassin’s Creed III What does it mean to speak American?  According to Laura Amico, a teacher in the Cliffside Park school district in New Jersey, to speak American is the opposite of speaking Spanish.

What does it mean to speak American?  According to Laura Amico, a teacher in the Cliffside Park school district in New Jersey, to speak American is the opposite of speaking Spanish.  Students captured her saying this on Snapchat before they walked out in protest: to

 be

American is the same as to

 speak

American.

Speaking American

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Contra La Pared: Reggaetón and Dissonance in Naarm, Melbourne

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Pictured above areRaven Von Scrumptious (right) an Sepia Jewel (left), two burlesque dancers from San Diego, California. Raven and Sepia started “eye fucking” in burlesque classes with Coco L’Amour and later they transferred these gestures to the photo studio and the stage,  gestures that as Juana Maria Rodriguez notes, “dance, flirt and fuck” (2014). “Eye fucking” is transmitting tease, a play with your audience that is coquettish.

Femmes Fucking the Camera: Listening to the Sonics of Boudoir Photography

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In the early 1870s a talking machine, contrived by the aptly-named Joseph Faber appeared before audiences in the United States.  Dubbed the “euphonia” by its inventor, it did not merely record the spoken word and then reproduce it, but actually synthesized speech mechanically.

Mr. and Mrs. Talking Machine: The Euphonia, the Phonograph, and the Gendering of Nineteenth Century Mechanical Speech

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These days it’s a challenge to be reviewing a book that has anything to do with the English singer-writer Morrissey, given his support for Brexit and anti-immigrant nationalist political parties in the UK. In a fake interview, Moz recently used his website to attack non-compliant media that had criticized him. His vegetarianist pitch was that Muslim meat is murder.

SO! READS: Melissa Mora Hidalgo’s Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands

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Black Joy: African Diasporic Religious Expression in Popular Culture

(T)racing Mother Listening: W.E.B. Du Bois &amp; Sigmund Freud

Almost 20 years ago, 2 Many DJs and Freelance Hellraiser each released too-clever mashups that laid R&amp;B pop diva vocals over indie rock instrumentals, revealing that the paired songs had

 exactly

the same compositional structure. The former’s “Smells Like Booty” put Destiny’s Child together with Nirvana, and the latter’s “A Stroke of Genius” combined Christina Aguilera with The Strokes.

Poptimism and Popular Feminism

“Music More Ancient than Words”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories on Africana Aurality

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“Most pleasant to the ear”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Itinerant Intellectual Soundscapes

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According to the latest data from Nielson and the RIAA, vinyls are back. The old fashioned form now outsells CDs – but few have remarked on the fact that, unlike CDs and more like good little children, they are meant to be seen and not heard.  At Ikea, for example, you can now easily buy frames sized for LP covers, which are clearly intended for the wall, rather than the turntable.

SO! Reads: Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder’s Designed For Hi Fi Living

**This post is co-authored by Gabriel Solomon Mindel and Alexander J. Ullman

On February 2, 2017, thousands of protesters took to the University of California Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to protest and ultimately shut down a planned talk by the right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.

A Tradition of Free and Odious Utterance: Free Speech &amp; Sacred Noise in Steve Waters’s Temple

Analog revival has gained traction across many media in recent years, but perhaps nowhere so strikingly as in sound. The shifting formats and fortunes of a digitally reshaped music industry invite, for many, the counterposition of a bright nostalgic picture. Yet artists and engineers whose work has spanned the transition from analog to digital sound find that the romanticization of the former can have a weird overreach.

SO! Reads: Damon Krukowski’s The New Analog

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: The Meaning of Silence SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In this podcast Marcella Ernest discusses the cultural use of sound in Hula and other Native languages with discussants Candace Gala and Nancy Marie Mithlo.

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Editor’s Note:

Welcome to the second installment in the “DH and Listening” blog series for World Listening Month, our annual forum that prompts readers to reflect on what it means to listen.

“Share your story” – but who will listen?

Betrayal I first realized there was a problem with my voice on the first day of tenth grade English class. The teacher, Mrs. C, had a formidable reputation of strictness and high standards.

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I first realized there was a problem with my voice on the first day of tenth grade English class. The teacher, Mrs. C, had a formidable reputation of strictness and high standards. She had us sit in alphabetical order row after row, and then insisted on calling roll aloud while she sat at her desk. Each name emerged as both a command and a threat in her firm voice. “Kelly Barfield?” “Here,” I mumbled quietly.

Listen to the Sound of My Voice

This is an excerpt from a paper I delivered at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

— “Compressed and rarefied air particles of sound waves” from Popular Science Monthly, Volume 13. In the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Look Away and Listen: The Audiovisual Litany in Philosophy

Only overhead the sweet nightingale Ever sang more sweet as the day might fail, And snatches of its Elysian chant Were mixed with the dreams of the Sensitive Plant Percy Shelley, The Sensitive Plant, 1820

ROOT: Sounds from the Invisible Plant

Plants are the most abundant life form visible to us. Despite their ubiquitous presence, most of the times we still fail to notice them. The botanists James Wandersee and Elizabeth Schussler call it “plant blindness, an extremely prevalent condition characterized by the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s immediate environment.

Botanical Rhythms: A Field Guide to Plant Music

In the third episode of

 Twin Peaks: The Return

(2017), we meet Dougie Jones, a new character who is, as an otherworldly being will tell him, “manufactured.” Dougie’s sonic presence on the show is primarily marked by repetition, as the majority of his dialogue involves him parroting those around him.

Teach Me How To Dougie Like A Mediocre White Man

Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in

 The Sound Studies Reader,

“comes to the rescue of thought rather than the inverse, forcing it to vibrate, loosening up its organized or petrified body (70).  These investigations into medieval sound lend themselves to a variety of presentation methods loosening up the

Sounding Out! Podcast #54: The Sound of Magic

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‘A Clateryng of Knokkes’: Multimodality and Performativity in “The Blacksmith’s Lament”

For the full intro to the series by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here.  The forum’s inspiring research by scholars/practioners Wanda Alarcón, Yessica Garcia Hernandez, Marlen Rios-Hernandez, Susana Sepulveda, and Iris C. Viveros Avendaño, understands music in its local, translocal and transnational context, and insists upon open new scholarly imaginaries. . .  Current times require us to bridge intersectional, decolonial, and gender analysis.

Unapologetic Paisa Chingona-ness: Listening to Fans’ Sonic Identities

AMBIENCE On December 28, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation debuted a radio piece by famed pianist Glenn Gould, titled The Idea of North. Opaque yet spacious, this experiment would become the first in a trio of ambient documentaries to be produced over the next decade.

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On December 28, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation debuted a radio piece by famed pianist Glenn Gould, titled

 The Idea of North

. Opaque yet spacious, this experiment would become the first in a trio of ambient documentaries to be produced over the next decade. Each episode explores the theme of solitude from a different geographical vantage, co-implicating form and content;

The Idea (of an Idea) of North (Of the North): Glenn Gould’s Piece at 50

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Recently, in a Harvard graduate seminar with visiting composer-scholar George Lewis, the eminent professor asked me pointedly if I considered myself a “sound artist.” Finding myself put on the spot in a room mostly populated with white male colleagues who were New Music composers, I paused and wondered whether I had the right to identify that way.

becoming a sound artist: analytic and creative perspectives

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Multidisciplinary composer and media alchemist Navid Navab and his team at the Topological Media Lab based at Concordia University (Montreal) presented

 Aquaphoneia

, a sound installation which transmutes voice into water and water into air at Biennale Nemo in Paris in December 2017 (and will run until March 2018). I conducted this interview in the context of the first presentation of

 Aquaphoneia

originally conceptualized for Ars

“This Liquid Dream”: An Interview with Aquaphoneia Composer Navid Navab

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For those familiar with modern media, there are a number of short musical phrases that immediately trigger a particular emotional response. Think, for example, of the two-note theme that denotes the shark in

 Jaws

, and see if you become just a little more tense or nervous.

Beyond the Grave: The “Dies Irae” in Video Game Music

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In the summer of 2016, optimistic about a full-time teaching position at a minority-serving institution, yet unsure about what the U.S. election would mean for immigrants’ rights, I played the

 Hamilton

soundtrack daily. Lin Manuel Miranda wrote the Pulitzer-prize winning musical inspired by Ron Chernow’s biography on the United States’ founding father because, he believed, Alexander Hamilton’s life embodied hip hop.

Making His Story Their Story: Teaching Hamilton at a Minority-serving Institution

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In Spring 2017, I brought Houston-based playwright/performer Josh Inocéncio to my campus—the University of Houston—to perform his solo show

 Purple Eyes

(for more on the event, see “Campus Organizing, or How I Use Theatre to Resist”).

 Purple Eyes

is what Inocéncio calls an “ancestral auto/biographical” performance piece which explores his upbringing as a closeted gay Chicano living in the midst of the cultural heritage of

“Ich kann nicht”: Hearing Racialized Language in Josh Inocéncio’s Purple Eyes (Ojos Violetas)

Our listening practices are discursively constructed. In the sonic landscape of India, in particular, the way in which we listen and what we hear are often normative, produced within hegemonic discourses of gender, class, caste, region, and sexuality.

co-edited by Praseeda Gopinath and Monika Mehta  Our listening practices are discursively constructed. In the sonic landscape of India, in particular, the way in which we listen and what we hear are often normative, produced within hegemonic discourses of gender, class, caste, region, and sexuality.

“Happy Homes Have Gramophones” –Gender, Technology, and the Sonic Restaging of Community Before and After the Partition of Bengal

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Out of Sync: Gendered Location Sound Work in Bollywood

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The Queer Sound of the Dandiya Queen, Falguni Pathak

Lawrence English

is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He investigates the politics of perception, through live performance and installation, to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception.

“People’s lives are at stake”: A conversation about Law, Listening, and Sound between James Parker and Lawrence English

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“Decolonization,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang propose in “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” “is not an ‘and.’ It is an elsewhere.”  Elsewhere, not here, not now. Not here. Not now. Enough! In the context of decolonization, elsewhere is a refusal to accept the conditions of life as is in the here and now.

Voices at Work: Listening to and for Elsewhere at Public Gatherings in Toronto, Canada (at So-called 150)

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Never have we been prouder in the history of

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that nothing much has changed over here in year 8.0. In what has been a period of unrelenting fear, volatility, violence, hate, and uncertainty, we have not only maintained our

¡¡¡¡Resist!!!!: Blog-o-Versary 8.0

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Our listening practices are discursively constructed. In the sonic landscape of India, in particular, the way in which we listen and what we hear is often normative, produced within hegemonic discourses of gender, class, caste, region, and sexuality.

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co-edited by Praseeda Gopinath and Monika Mehta  Our listening practices are discursively constructed. In the sonic landscape of India, in particular, the way in which we listen and what we hear is often normative, produced within hegemonic discourses of gender, class, caste, region, and sexuality.

Gender and the First Sound Films in 1930s Bombay

In the Numu tekwapuha, the Comanche language: Haa ma ruawe, haa nu haitsi. Nu nahnia tsa Dustin Tahmahkera.

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In the Numu tekwapuha, the Comanche language:  In this post, I talk about the phrase “becoming sound,” and also gesture to several examples across Indi’n Country to encourage us to listen for aural affirmations and disavowals of indigeneity and encourage active reflection on the roles of sound in becoming and being indigenous, now and in the future.

Becoming Sound: Tubitsinakukuru from Mt. Scott to Standing Rock

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Sounding Out! Podcast #63: The Sonic Landscapes of Unwelcome: Women of Color, Sonic Harassment, and Public Space

In her recent biography of Roland Barthes, Tiphaine Samoyault describes the quality of his speech through what Barthes had called the “grain of the voice,” a quality that “bears witness to a past able to act in the present, a continued memory, a recollecting forwards” (13). The voice, and perhaps most importantly, its potentialities, has been theorized in the realms of critical theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and more recently sound studies,

SO! Reads:  Licia Fiol-Matta’s The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

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For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here.  For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here.  For the second post by Susana Sepulveda click here. For the third post by by Wanda Alarcón click here.   For last week’s post by Iris C. Viveros Avendaño click here.

“Don’t Be Afraid to Pogo!”: Chicana Hollywood Punks Negotiate ‘h/Home’ After Hardcore Takes L.A.

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For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here.  For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here.  For the second post by Susana Sepulveda click here.

Sounding Out Tarima Temporalities: Decolonial Feminista Dance Disruption

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Feminista Music Scholarship understands music production and listening as a collective site of engagement that sometimes produces and sometimes challenges social structures of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation.  It is a method and practice that pushes on narrative frameworks that naturalize the absence of women of color and Chicanx subjects in music scholarship.

Chicana Soundscapes: Introduction

This past summer 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Warsaw and delivered an unplanned statement on the brutal police shooting deaths of two black men that had just occurred within one day of each other, Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

Scenes of Subjection: Women’s Voices Narrating Black Death

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**This piece is co-authored by Wanda Alarcón, Dolores Inés Casillas, Esther Díaz Martín, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Cloe Gentile Reyes For weeks, we have been inundated with executive orders (220 at last count), alarming budget cuts (from science and the arts to our national parks), stupendous tariff hikes, the defunding of DEI-anything, the banning of […]

**This piece is co-authored by


 Wanda Alarcón

,

 Dolores Inés Casillas

,

 Esther Díaz Martín

,

 Sara Veronica Hinojos

,

 and


 Cloe Gentile Reyes



For weeks, we have been inundated with executive orders (220 at last count), alarming budget cuts (from science and the arts to our national parks), stupendous tariff hikes, the