Previous Meetings

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

2024

30th September

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

28th August

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

29th May

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

30th April

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

28th March

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

28th February 

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

2023

29th November

  • 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

  • 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

Consultation to choose the new format of the reading group.

31st August

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

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

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

Meeting facilitated by Sam Riley

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