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Review: Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City, by Shanté Paradigm Smalls 评论嘻哈异端：纽约市的同性恋美学》，作者 Shanté Paradigm Smalls

IF 0.2 3区艺术学

Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.133

L. Kehrer

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“Let’s See If We’ve Been Missing Out!” "看看我们是否错过了什么！"

IF 0.2 3区艺术学

Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.18

Morgan Bimm

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Time to Document 记录时间

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Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.54

A. Vesey

{"title":"Time to Document","authors":"A. Vesey","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.54","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Björk has defied pop music criticism’s persistent myth of male genius by asserting her authorship as a singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She expressed these concerns during a 2015 Pitchfork interview with Jessica Hopper by reflecting on the press’s minimization of her production work throughout her career and her desire to reclaim her creative authority as a model for younger female-identified artists. During this portion of the conversation, she mused, “I’ve sometimes thought about releasing a map of all my albums and just making it clear who did what.” Her impulse to challenge masculinist creation myths through documentation became the catalyst for Björk: Sonic Symbolism, a 2022 podcast miniseries sponsored by Mailchimp in which she discussed her albums’ creative processes with friends Oddný Eir and Ásmundur Jónson in a series of interviews. The title, which Björk defines as “a visual shortcut to describe sound,” provides the podcast’s framework for her articulation of authorial control, which she examines through album art that illustrates each cover’s mood and character; poetic synopses of each album’s unique audiovisual language; and references to her various studio, video, and stage collaborators. By using close listening to examine Björk’s conversations with Eir and Jónson and the episodes’ illustrative song segments, this article posits that Björk’s engagement with podcasting as an audio storytelling medium allows her to foreground her distinct speaking and singing voice as both a feminist intervention upon the recording industry and as a sonic metaphor for authorial control.","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":"25 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138625021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Podcast Reenactments and the Sonics of Fictionalization from Cher to Swift 从雪儿到斯威夫特的播客再现和虚构的声效

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Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.34

Amy Skjerseth

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A Non-Expert Response 非专家回应

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Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.125

Norma Coates

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Review: Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History, by Alessandro Portelli 评论：硬雨：鲍勃-迪伦、口述文化和历史的意义》，亚历山德罗-波特利著

IF 0.2 3区艺术学

Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.136

Sean Latham

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Podcasting Taylor 播客泰勒

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Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.91

Kate Galloway

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Broadcasting Stories of Racism on the Radio 在广播中播放种族主义故事

IF 0.2 3区艺术学

Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.72

A. Brekke

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Sustaining Queer Joy and Potentiality 维持同性恋的快乐和潜能

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Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.111

Stacey Copeland

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Review: DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution, by Lance Scott Walker 回顾：DJ Screw：缓慢革命的一生》，兰斯-斯科特-沃克著

IF 0.2 3区艺术学

Journal of Popular Music Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.4.143

Langston Collin Wilkins

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