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In an upcoming issue of The Annual Review of Anthropology there is an article co-authored by some well-known music scholars arguing for sound in anthropology. Just last month, a deadline arrived for a special issue of The American Quarterly on sound and culture. This November, the Sound Studies interest group of the AMS will have its very first evening panel session (sadly pitted against the

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-56611081834528007642010-08-29T13:22:00.000-07:002010-08-30T16:19:53.103-07:00

Fall semester is literally just around the corner, and like many of my colleagues, I'm gradually pulling myself out of my summer work mode. This year marks the first time in my professional life when summer translated into 3 very distinct activities: travel, research, and writing. (Research-related travel meant that I spent 4 weeks in Brazil and I also saw more music than I normally am able to do

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-85876002942294387242010-05-04T05:22:00.000-07:002010-05-04T07:40:42.337-07:00

In approximately 6 weeks I will be living as a bachelorette for the first time in over 4 years.* As a young academic, my impending solitary life is inevitable. At some point, most of us face the prospect of entering a long-distance relationship. For many of us, our marital / relationship status directly determines what types of jobs we are willing to do, or what our job negotiations will look

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-70387523391377325912010-02-03T10:54:00.000-08:002010-02-03T11:29:34.843-08:00

It's that time of year again. Here is the syllabus for "Music, Media and the Representation of Difference," a seminar I am leading this semester. We had our first meeting today, and it looks like I have a very bright group of students. I'm quite pleased. (I should have posted this earlier, but my schedule really ran away with me. Normally I post syllabi before they are finalized.)A note on media

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-62060126253194688382010-01-14T17:47:00.001-08:002010-01-14T18:00:10.902-08:00

Here's a topic for discussion, my fellow blogging or blog-reading musicologists:What are some ways in which a Ph.D. program in musicology could be adjusted so that a student could potentially find a career outside of academia?Never fear, I ask not for myself (at least not yet; give me a few more years!) but because over at Tenured Radical, the illustrious Prof. Potter pointed out that her own

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-80607165611130913742010-01-06T07:39:00.001-08:002010-01-06T08:16:33.800-08:00

One of the toughest hurdles we must surmount as young academics is the extended trip. Ethnomusicologists generally spend between 6 months to 2 years in some place outside of their comfort zone, ranging from foreign countries to a field site on the other end of the city. Musicologists may do this as well, or they might spend months on end in an archive. As many Americanists know, international

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-85168191260285132932009-12-16T03:33:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:40:27.950-08:00

Musicology and ethnomusicology blogs rarely discuss money matters. However, over the last month or so, as many of my former colleagues and students have been protesting the disastrous state of affairs at the University of California system, the silence has been deafening. At a recent meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology which happened at the height of protests UC-wide, I only heard of one

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-55660029188849492132009-11-05T07:43:00.000-08:002009-11-05T07:43:00.206-08:00

For the last few week I've been officially teaching repertoire that rubs right up against the music I research. While my prep time for lectures has diminished to a minimum, I find teaching my own area to be the most unexpected challenge of my course. And I'm not alone. Just last week, I met with a few other ethno/musicologists working in a visiting assistant professor capacity for other liberal

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-25630585649481443762009-10-27T10:35:00.000-07:002009-10-27T10:53:43.349-07:00

I am having a really wonderful and surprising experience with this book I'm reading. I’m starting to work on my chapter on the Berlioz Requiem, and I needed to learn about church music in the Nineteenth century. This book is called "Church Music in the Nineteenth Century," by Arthur Hutchings. Considering its title at least 50% promising, I brought it home, or rather, I had my husband bring it

MMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153354751263597162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-6476681852870191322009-10-26T14:20:00.000-07:002009-10-26T15:27:25.256-07:00

One of my favorite recent memes on Google Reader (especially Bruitus at Immanent Discursivity) is the flood of interesting videos of various people performing the Brazilian choro classic "Tico-Tico no Fubá" by Zequinha de Abreu. To get an idea of what I am talking about, here is the world's most famous Brazilian parrot, Joe (Zé) Carioca, teaching Donald Duck about samba through a demonstration of

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-63294970358533366582009-10-20T20:53:00.000-07:002009-10-20T20:57:47.421-07:00

It's nice to see that the slow wheels of academic musicology are finally swinging into motion:POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETYCALL FOR PAPERSSpecial Issue:Michael Jackson: Musical SubjectivitiesEdited by Susan Fast and Stan HawkinsSubmissions are invited for a special edition of Popular Music and Society that examines constructions of subjectivity in Michael Jackson's music, with a focus on gender,

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-58931350248661235012009-10-09T04:52:00.000-07:002009-10-09T05:16:37.835-07:00

For two chapters of my dissertation (remember that?), I attempted to tackle that music history beast known as reception history. I spent weeks on end in libraries browsing through old issues of Vogue, Downbeat, New Yorker, and Billboard among other periodicals. And as I refined my ideas about samba in the 1940s and bossa nova in the 1960s, I sometimes had to revisit these collections causing

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-68435083506020356932009-09-09T12:26:00.000-07:002009-09-09T14:47:46.259-07:00

Just a few hours ago I finished my very first lecture at my very first post PhD job. And it was exciting, let me tell you. I have the rare privilege of teaching the very stuff that matters most to my research. It's great! In the past few weeks I've been culling together my materials for this class and a few things occurred to me about the nature of teaching pop music classes, especially those

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-62423152962232958022009-09-01T09:52:00.000-07:002009-09-02T16:20:03.851-07:00

As Phil Sr. says, happy academic new year! Since both he and my co-blogger Kariann are talking syllabi, I thought I would pitch in as well, especially since I could use some advice.One of my classes this semester is a three-fold challenge: 1. It is a one semester history of western music. That's a lot of history.2. It is required for music majors, and in fact is the only history requirement--we

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-57763618290381639022009-08-21T12:49:00.000-07:002009-08-21T13:28:19.626-07:00

This fall semester, I will be teaching a course at Colby College entitled "Music and the Global Metropolis." I thought it might be fun and productive to post the syllabus minus audio examples here on Musicology / Matters and on my other blog, Rebellion on Two-Wheels, for commentary and public use. So please, do with it as you like within the limits of reason!Music 197 A: Music and the Global

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I'm by no means an expert on Michael Jackson, but I thought I might take a stab at assembling a short bibliography of Michael Jackson studies. As with the blog compendium (blogiography?), suggestions are enthusiastically welcomed. Obviously there is a ton of writing on Jackson by journalists and fans. In my own work on pop music, I find such writings invaluable. But since they are easy enough to

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-37329379926571081512009-06-30T09:12:00.000-07:002009-06-30T09:20:56.210-07:00

Cross-posted from 2'23"--it's worth checking out the smart commenters there.-One thing I've noticed about reactions to Michael Jackson's death, at least among children of the 1980s such as myself, has been the desire to recount one's initial introduction to his music. It's kind of like the opposite of the baby-boomer obsession with recounting where you were when JFK was shot. For them, the death

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-77665466558342646022009-06-29T12:41:00.000-07:002009-06-29T13:53:15.204-07:00

(expanded from a post I wrote on the AMS list-serv)While I have ended up working on Romantic music, I nonetheless grew up in a pop cultural world that was very much shaped by Michael Jackson. "Thriller" was the first album I ever owned (an Easter present!), and, like many millions of people, some of my earliest memories of being excited about and inspired by music and performance are tied to

MMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153354751263597162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-35240618334653595902009-06-29T08:14:00.000-07:002009-08-12T20:31:47.344-07:00

An incomplete list of academic-y blogging about Michael Jackson. I'll be updating this continuously; if you know of good posts put 'em in the comments.Matthew Guerrieri at Soho the Dog.Karen Tongson at Oh! IndustryJason King at Passed the CurveRyan Banagale at Amusicology.Steven Shaviro at The Pinocchio Theory.Texas Tech Music Theory DepartmentUncle Dave LewisRichard Kim at The NotionClaire

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-77993992182444082832009-06-28T20:44:00.000-07:002009-06-29T08:48:32.491-07:00

Your loyal hosts here at Musicology Matters would like to propose a sort of blog colloquium. The subject is Michael Jackson. The importance of Jackson, to those of us who care about music in the late twentieth century, is difficult to overstate. Few other figures have been at the center of so many fundamental changes in our relationship with popular music.So although a surge of actual

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-55945433993379497302009-04-21T15:36:00.000-07:002009-04-21T16:16:00.522-07:00

Okay, here's a useful topic to blog about here: How to be an Adjunct. Adjuncting, or becoming "contingent labor" as it sometimes delicately put, is not a very fun life. The pay is not much, rough commutes are often involved, and the work is sometimes dispiriting. But in these Tough Economic Times, and in an era of shrinking tenure-track prospects, adjunct work can help fill the gaps. Or if you

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-56328305953053013222009-04-13T17:43:00.000-07:002009-04-13T18:07:10.009-07:00

This blog ain't seen much action lately, so I'll try to revive with a question for any readers it has left.So you all know about Pandora, right? The whole Music Genome Project? I find it moderately fascinating. I love putting in an artist and seeing who the "similar artists" are. I also adore the bizarrely opinionated artist descriptions: "Definitely the most talented and arguably the

CelloShotsnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-9006222002122052092009-01-19T14:11:00.000-08:002009-01-19T14:13:21.091-08:00

Cross-posted on Rebellion on Two WheelsThere is a ton to blog about. I'm completely serious, and I have a lot to say. But there's also this nagging thing called my dissertation that has to get done very soon. And while I have been almost done for quite some time, I'd like to finally be done done. So forgive my absence in the blogosphere, but I have to step away for awhile. I'll return once I have

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-22259994786930895692008-11-02T12:22:00.000-08:002008-11-02T12:37:54.706-08:00

It is conference season, and with it comes understandable professional pressures. As you may or may not know, I presented a part of my second chapter from my dissertation at SEM last weekend. In just a few days, I will be getting on a plane for Nashville to attend AMS. Normally conference season is my most unproductive. Whatever work I do is generally focused on older projects, and I direct the

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-40569901581819947612008-10-31T20:41:00.000-07:002008-10-31T20:45:20.342-07:00

Congrats to fellow blogger and friend PMG, the world's newest PhD in Musicology!

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At the moment, I'm stuck in an airport in Chile on a 12-hour layover. An overnight bus-ride followed by a bumpy flight over the Andes means that I am physically exhausted from lack of sleep. And after 7 weeks of research, I am also really tired of thinking about my dissertation. Given the above, I thought I'd talk about something else that has been on my mind lately: dance music sub-genre

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-52843371754287036832008-07-20T14:06:00.000-07:002008-07-20T16:02:25.956-07:00

When I tell people over a certain age that I study musicals, they seem to feel obliged to do one of two things. Either they ask me what my favorite musical is (I don't have an answer to that one; sorry), or they tell me, conspiratorially, that they know all the words to West Side Story.I'm not kidding; all Americans who were aware in 1957 know every last word of West Side Story. This odd tidbit

CelloShotsnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-5633283894328660042008-07-18T10:17:00.001-07:002008-07-18T10:21:27.602-07:00

Act II of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible exceeds all expectations (and it is certainly a welcome distraction from my field work). I may not specialize in musical theater, but I can certainly identify dorky fodder for musicologists when I see it.Anyone more specialized in the genre care to comment?

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-74893314200278950352008-07-04T11:05:00.000-07:002008-07-06T06:43:24.088-07:00

As someone who generally studies the uglier aspect of making music (i.e. blatant urbanity, consumerism, international tensions, etc.), I feel it is time for me to answer the question that is on everyone's mind: how do I weigh the not beautiful in the music I study. (Disclaimer: in many ways, this post is a continuation of Phil's non-answer to a vague trend in the musicology blogosphere and AMS

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-59209652191359418332008-04-10T16:54:00.000-07:002008-04-11T07:53:37.984-07:00

I think I’m going to start at the end. First, my end: after three years I miraculously landed a tenure track job at an RU/VH University. Second, the works cited list: the musings below were inspired by the following:* The job wiki.* The Rhetoric of the ‘Job Market’ and the Reality of the Academic Labor System by Marc Bousquet ("By 1997, the dominance of market ideology had fully bloomed into a

cponoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-69828115033225329642008-03-11T13:38:00.000-07:002008-03-14T12:06:17.498-07:00

For those of you who don't frequent wayne&wax, check out this excellent post about critical distance/intimacy w/r/t the new cumbia. I don't know anyone else on the musiblogosphere who so virtuosically integrates his own creative work with web2.0. Even though I thought the meme died a few months ago, the topic of intimacy with ones work is still alive and well. [Just check out the comments section

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-74333856400292431562008-03-10T21:44:00.000-07:002008-03-10T21:45:03.293-07:00

I feel that I have to apologize in advance, but I won't be posting much if at all in the coming weeks. Not only is it crunch time for a certain second dissertation chapter (which I was supposed to complete 3 weeks ago), but it's also that time of the year when certain conference abstracts are due as well as the last round of fellowship applications. But more important than any of these things, my

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-17660212013428985682008-02-24T16:27:00.000-08:002008-02-24T16:40:03.446-08:00

Please forgive my silence in this area of the blogosphere. It turns that it is difficult to occupy multiple spheres at the same time, especially when one or two of them has recently become much higher in intensity. But fret not, musicology, I have not forgotten about you.Apparently I am slow on the uptake, but Radical Musicology has an excellent article by Ian Biddle on the sound relations

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-82667869895331446942008-01-11T10:13:00.000-08:002008-01-11T15:20:28.825-08:00

Today I walked into my regular coffee shop and to my surprise they were blasting Viennese classical music instead of their usual fair of indie rock and downtempo electronic dance music. When I enthusiastically identified the composer for the second time in a row (first Haydn, then Mozart), the gentleman behind the counter said, "well, isn't that what you are paid for?" Baristas like bartenders

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-44218689682779489312008-01-04T15:01:00.000-08:002008-01-04T15:30:56.313-08:00

So here it is after the new year. Kariann's back from Brazil, I am now a married man, and yet, we are still finding it hard to find time to blog. So, we're going to be pretty laidback around here, just a post or two when we feel like it.Meanwhile, what was up with Alex Ross's column in this week's New Yorker? I like Alex's writing a lot, and plan to assign The Rest is Noise first chance I get. In

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-4611784551338673642007-12-16T10:43:00.000-08:002007-12-16T10:54:01.082-08:00

Musicology matters, but so does one's sanity. Thus, Phil and I are taking a well-needed break. I am wrapping up phase II of my fieldwork while Phil's wedding planning has taken over his life. Forgive our silence, but we will start again with the new year.In the meantime, if you really wish some ethno/musicology forum out in the interwebs would start a discussion about a particular topic, drop us

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-17257141276529134382007-12-07T14:31:00.000-08:002007-12-08T01:05:37.969-08:00

I remember back in my first term ever as a grad student at a different university, our prof made us spend an entire week thinking about--not doing--transcription and translation. For that quarter of "World Music Perspectives," transcription and translation had to go together because a culturally sensitive scholar of whatever breed would fret about the power dynamics that encapsulate translating

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-91578494597375991392007-12-04T06:18:00.000-08:002007-12-04T06:24:38.248-08:00

I have spent much of the last two days transcribing and analyzing a song I’ve known for about half my life. (No, you don’t get to know what it is!) It is so satisfying to do this work. In contrast to the process of writing, and my self-imposed daily word counts, you’d think this kind of woodshedding would be frustrating. It really isn’t. The knowledge that transcription brings excites me,

cponoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-82796414301202978272007-12-03T05:47:00.000-08:002007-12-03T06:18:49.853-08:00

Well, that was a good start!We're not exactly sure how to organize this whole "themes" idea for this blog, but it seems like a good moment to move along to something else. We've had contributions from Kariann about the idea of "bad music" and guilty pleasures, Phil on on the link between theory and our own lives, Rebecca on her love for Church music, MMR on her experience as a rock star and the

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-76276963551179644022007-11-30T04:58:00.000-08:002008-12-10T03:25:37.170-08:00

When I first started my bicycle blog a few weeks ago, I thought it would be an excellent outlet for me to relay stories and observations of my car-less day-to-day life in Los Angeles. What I never expected, however, was how rapidly I would begin to make connections between my life as a musicologist and my life as a cyclist. And then I saw this photograph:Yesterday, the nation’s “newspaper of

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-31742084921706003542007-11-29T11:02:00.000-08:002007-11-29T11:03:02.139-08:00

Like everybody else, nine times out of ten, when people ask me what I study, the response to "musicology" is "what's THAT?" I have a pat answer I largely cribbed from Grove ("Musicology is the study not only of music, but of musicians, composers, and audiences living in certain places, at certain times, and within certain social constructs"), which usually has to be followed by a semi-apologetic

MMRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153354751263597162noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-91063867438168839752007-11-26T10:20:00.000-08:002007-11-27T07:15:10.059-08:00

Over at Beyond Academia, Sammee has a post up in response to our theme of "the music we study/the music we love." Check it out!Sammee brings up the spectre of Britney Spears, rightfully pointing out that popular music studies often neglects popular music that is, you know, popular. I myself always complain about the scholarly neglect of pop singers like Patti Page. One statistic I've seen says

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-90544715990691158852007-11-20T04:09:00.000-08:002007-11-20T04:43:43.407-08:00

Here's a fly-by-night post from the road:I love that scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton explains the concept of a single-serving friend in reference to travelling on airplanes. From the perspective of his character (Bob, is it?), every experience on airplanes comes in single-servings including one's social relationships. And he's right. I'm currently stuck in an airport Santiago, Chile on

KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15607603453415937865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-70413914762367793562007-11-19T13:53:00.000-08:002007-11-21T08:31:46.404-08:00

This post brought to you by Rebecca M. over at Musically Miscellaneous Mayhem.Phil and Kariann have offered astute and engaging ideas about this business of "guilty pleasures" and their place in musicology. I will try to offer something fresh and original as a musicologist who specializes in music that is considered by many to be a true guilty pleasure (witness the confessional Facebook group: "

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-21230475462204239042007-11-15T20:12:00.000-08:002007-11-16T17:49:21.145-08:00

Kariann has just discussed the tension a lot of musicologists feel between the music they study and the music they love. The tension is of course not actually about studying versus loving, I think, but about the different kinds of love we can have for music. Some music I study feels "important" in an aural hygiene sort of way, other music I study makes an excellent soundtrack for a roadtrip. (

PMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14859373169517442483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563972443080081407.post-31036042396702109362007-11-13T08:13:00.000-08:002007-11-13T08:28:43.214-08:00

It looks like I'm not the only one contemplating how we choose our objects of study. Over at amusicology, Drew similarly takes Walser's book review as a jumping off point to comment on the state of our field. I could say a lot more, but I have a feeling that musicology blogs don't know we exist over here.

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In a recent review of an essay collection entitled Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, Robert Walser questions the very idea of the book's premise, citing Dave Hickey and Christopher Small and their approach to contextualizing and taking seriously people's genuine pleasures that other critics flatly dismiss.* Guilty pleasures in popular culture are inherently about class and privilege. During

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Musicology/Matters is a new music blog coordinated by Kariann Goldschmitt and Philip Gentry. The two of us are both doctoral students in musicology at UCLA. Kariann is writing a dissertation on the reception and representation of Brazilian music in the United States, while I'm writing on American music during McCarthyism. Both of us have individual blogs elsewhere--here and here--but we also

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