“I Didn’t Mean to Turn You Kong” – Seeking out #MeToo in Pop Music
Listening to Cherrelle’s “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On” in the #MeToo moment.
Imagining What Silence Looks Like: Prince & Queering the Popular Love Song
The dark sound and minimalist instrumentation on “If I Was Your Girlfriend” demonstrates Prince’s willingness to bend and distort expectations with a lyrical and sonic playfulness that challenges the listener to think beyond the obvious gender stereotypes inherent in most popular love songs.
“Nobody Speak” – Pulling Back the Curtain on Trumpist Politics
You wanna hear a good joke? Nobody speak, nobody get choked.
Songs in Conversation: Don’t Knock the Intimacy of Urban Sound
Tony Orlando & Dawn’s “Knock Three Times” vs. Suzanne Vega’s “Luka” in the soundscape of urban living.
Songs in Conversation: Those are Some Fragile Men, Baby Doll.
Defamiliarizing gender to highlight its constructedness.
Songs In Conversation: I Can Go For Dialogics
Dialogics represent the rejection of a finality of meaning. It moves back and forth like a crossfade.
Cracking the Prototype: Serial Monogamy and the Pop Love Song
Songs that explore the more complex reality inherent in the tension between the intensity of romantic feelings and the experience of serialized monogamy.
