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Playing Like a Girl: Feminist Praxis as Feminist Pragmatics
Rolling Stone magazine just issued, seemingly for the umpteenth time, a list of the “100 best rock guitarists.” Jimi Hendrix, of course, topped the list. Very few names from after the 1970s made it at...
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The Velvet Light Trap CFP: On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)
The medium of sound, long placed in a secondary position to the visual within media studies, has experienced a considerable increase in scholarly attention over the past three decades, to the point...
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Everybody’s Doing Molly? Dance Music Cultures and Drugs
The high-profile cancellation of the third and final day (September 1, 2013) of Made Event’s Electric Zoo festival on Randall’s Island, New York, following the drug overdoses of two festivalgoers,...
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The Cosmopolitan City and the Carnivalesque in Arcade Fire’s Reflektor Campaign
On August 1, a mysterious Instagram account initiated the ambitious multi-media, multi-platform promotional campaign for Arcade Fire’s new single and album of the same name, Reflektor. Additionally,...
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Duty Now for the Future of Music: A Report from the Future of Music Coalition...
Five out of the last six fall seasons I have been lucky to attend one of the most interesting new media industry conferences in the United States. Taking place in Washington, DC, the annual Future of...
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Experts, Dads, and Technology: Gendered Talk About Online Music
This post is part of a partnership with the International Journal of Cultural Studies, where authors of newly published articles extend their arguments here on Antenna. At the moment, the Internet is...
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On Radio: Surprise! Radio Needs More Female Singers
Mickey Guyton (Image: KMLE/CBS Local) I recently read a piece on All Access (a radio/music industry website) by R.J. Curtis, trumpeting 2015 as a possible “Year of the Woman” for country music and...
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Mapping Popular Music Studies: Report from IASPM-US 2015 Conference
Louisville is full of surprises. Ask the attendees of the 2015 International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s annual U.S. meeting in the Derby City, which took place in Louisville on...
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Saving College Radio
WMUC Archives, 2012. Post by Laura Schnitker, University of Maryland, College Park On March 26, 1971, an up-and-coming folk singer named Don McLean sat down for an interview at WMUC, the University of...
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#SaladGate: When Social Media Disrupts an Insular Media Culture
Post by David Crider, State University of New York at Oswego As someone who has previously written for Antenna about country music radio’s gender problem, I have been following the “#SaladGate”...
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Walling the Garden and Putting the App into Apple Music
Post by Tim Anderson, Old Dominion University Let’s begin with Taylor Swift so we can get that out of the way: Swift stands tall, talented and influential. Her ability to call bullshit on not paying...
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The Only Music Podcast: Listening to a New Music Podcast Find its Voice
Post by Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta This is the first post in our new series “The Podcast Review,” which offers critical appreciations of podcast series or episodes and other notable digital...
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