Charles Kronengold has published on popular music, Western art music, film and aesthetics. This paper’s focus on “puzzling interfacing” expands on a theme in his second book, Different Methods, Different Signs: Crediting Thinking in Soul and Dance Music. He teaches musicology... Read More →
Tracy McMullen is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at USC. Her manuscript-in-progress, Replay: Repetition and Identity Compulsion from ABBA to Zizek examines live musical re-enactment as a cultural practice. She is also a saxophonist in the jazz and experimental... Read More →
Tavia Nyong’o writes and teaches about performance, popular music, and cultural theory at New York University. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz, came out in 2009. He is now working on a project about black aesthetics of the untimely.
Abstract:"Shame and Scandal and Zombies"
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Karen Tongson is the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011), co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and co-series editor for Postmillennial Pop, a book series at NYU Press. An Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC... Read More →
