Previous Meetings

On this page you can find the readings we have discussed so far in reversed chronological order.

2025

November

Music Streaming around the World (2025) ed. by David Hesmondhalgh

October

Geographies of the Ear: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona by Tania Gentic (2025)

July

Transatlantic Drift: The Ebb and Flow of Dance Music (2025) by Katie Milestone and Simon A. Morrison

May

Radical Education in Electronic Music, Past and Present (2024), Organised Sound, edited by Christopher Haworth and Jake Williams

Featuring work from various reading group members, the special issue is available here !

Organised Sound Volume 29 - Issue 2 - Radical Education in Electronic Music, Past and Present

February

Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi (Duke University Press 2022)

2024

October 

Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity. 2024. Gavin Steingo. The University of Chicago Press.

September

Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s (2020). Andrew F. Jones. University of Minnesota Press.

August

Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria. 2024. Shayna M. Silverstein. Wesleyan University Press.

May

YouTube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life. (2023). edited by Holly Rogers, 
Joana Freitas, and João Francisco Porfírio. Bloomsbury.

April

Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972. (2024). Edited by Paul Purgas. MIT/Strange Attractor

March

Michael Gallope (2024). The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978. (2024). Chicago.

February 

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, an open access book recently published. (find it here)

2023

29th November 2023

  • Matt St. John, Lauren E. Wilks, Stephanie Sapienza, Eric Hoyt (2023) ‘Access Amplified: Saving and Sharing a 1968 Detroit Audio Collection.’ Resonance, 4 (3): 246–259.

  • Mark Anthony Neal (2022) ‘Promise that you will [tweet] about me: Black death in the digital era’; Chapter 3 from Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive.

25th October 2023

  • Eric Drott. Fake Streams, Listening Bots, and Click Farms: Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Music Economy. American Music, vol. 38 no. 2, 2020, p. 153-175. muse.jhu.edu/article/763316.

  • Gavin Williams. Shellac as Musical Plastic. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2021; 74 (3): 463–500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.463

28th September 2023

Consultation to choose the new format of the reading group.

31st August 2023

Meeting facilitated by Christine Oppedisano.

  • Lupton, Deborah. 2015. “Digital Bodies.” Available at SSRN.

  • Piekut, Benjamin. 2014. “Actor-Networks in Music History: Clarifications and Critiques.” Twentieth-Century Music 11 (2), 191–215.

  • Valiquet, Patrick. 2021. “Deep Structure: The Generative Subject in Actor-Network Theory and Musicology.” In Antoine Hennion and Christophe Levaux (eds.), Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies. New York: Routledge, 88-109.

3rd August 2023

Meeting facilitated by Zach Dawson

  • ‘Music 2.0 and artistic research’, up to page 59.

  • Artists Re:thinking the blockchain introduction

  • Convening Technologies: Blockchain and the music industry, up to section titled ‘Blockchain Dreams’

  • Holly+ and further resources:https://holly.plushttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1550111/1698267

29th June 2023

Meeting facilitated by Valentina Bertolani

  • Cook, Terry. “Electronic Records, Paper Minds: The Revolution in Information Management and Archives in the Post/ Custodial and Post/ Modernist Era.” Archives and manuscripts 22, no. 2 (1994): 300–328.

  • Helmond, A., van der Vlist, F. (2021). “Platform and App Histories: Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives and App Repositories.” In: Gomes, D., Demidova, E., Winters, J., Risse, T. (eds) The Past Web. Springer.

  • Jaillant, Lise. “How Can We Make Born-Digital and Digitised Archives More Accessible? Identifying Obstacles and Solutions.” Archival science 22, no. 3 (2022): 417–436.

22nd May 2023

Meeting facilitated by Sam Riley

  • Paul Steinbeck, Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM, Chicago: University of Chicago press, 2022.

March 2023

  • Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. DUP (2023).

February 2023

  • Wolfgang Ernst, Sonic time machines: explicit sound, sirenic voices, and implicit sonicity (Amsterdam University Press, 2016).

January 2023

  • Peter Osborne. The Postconceptual Condition: Critical Essays 

2022

November 2022

  • Selections on Bruno Latour

October 2022

  • Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Potential History. Unlearning Imperialism. Verso, 2019. 

June 2022

  • Christophe Levaux, We Have Always Been Minimalist: The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style, University of California Press, 2020

May 2022

  • G Douglas Barrett. After Sound: Toward a Critical Music (2016).

April 2022

  • You Nakai, Reminded By the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (2021).

March 2022

  • Matthew Morrison (2019) ‘Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse.’ https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article/72/3/781/107058/Race-Blacksound-and-the-Re-Making-of-Musicological 

February 2022

January 2022

2021

December 2021

  • Robin James (2014) “Neoliberal Noise: Attali, Foucault & the Biopolitics of Uncool,” Culture, Theory and Critique 55/2, 138–158

November 2021

  • Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (2021).

October 2021

  • Dylan Robinson, Hungry listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (2020)