FUTURE TALKS / PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS
Dec 2018 “Sound as State Violence in Contemporary Policing Practices” at Music and Sound Between Tradition and Innovation co-sponsored by NYU, NYU Prague and Charles University, Prague, CZ
PAST TALKS / PAPERS / PRESENTATIONS
Nov 2018 “A sonic state of emergency: domestic LRAD use and community response” American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA
Nov 2018 Diversity in Publication (sponsored by the AMS Committee on Career-Related Issues), American Musicological Society, San Antonio, TX
2018 “Sounding Sanctuaries in New York City: Earwitnessing against deportation” with Chris Nickell, INGOBRENABLES!: War, Revolution * Revolt (Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures XXIII Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 19-20
2017
2017 “Whoop! Whoop! Listening to the policing of black lives through hip hop” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Berkeley, CA
2017 “Whoop! Whoop! Listening to the policing of black lives through hip hop” American Musicological Society, Rochester, NY
2017 “Sound protocols: Street Medic Prevention and Treatment of sonic injury” American Studies Association, Chicago, IL
2017 “Sound protocols: Street Medic Prevention and Treatment of sonic injury” CUNY Music Graduate Conference
2017 “Muff the Police: Tactics for Protecting Communities from Police Sound” Listening to the City Conference, MIT
2017 “Prince ‘Seven’ and David Bowie ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’” at Blackstar Rising & The Purple Reign: Celebrating the Legacies of David Bowie and Prince, Yale University
EMP/IASPM-US 2012 “Turn It Up! Listening To Difference,” a project of the Feminist Working Group
SEM 2011 “Svoboda Cultura: The Sound of ‘Free Culture’ in Czech translation,” Philadelphia, PA, November
IASPM-US2011 “Free Culture in the Czech Republic” at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US, in Cincinatti, OH, March
EMP2011 “Direct-to-fan vs. DIY: 21st century music business models in Czech Pop Music Networks” at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, UCLA, February.
EMP2011 Work It!: gender, race, and sexuality in pop professions. Conference co-chair and facilitator of the “Publishing/Journalism” break out session. USC, February..
2010 U.S. Intellectual History Conference (CUNY) “Situating gender and sexuality in Spin and Vibe 1996-2006
PAST PROJECTS
My Masters thesis addressed the crossover of fine artists into popular music performance in the contemporary New York City indie/dance scene and focused on the musicians Casey Spooner (Fischerspooner), Rob Corradetti (Mixel Pixel) and Lalena Fissure (The Color Guard). It was titled “Fine Art Education and Popular Music: A Crossover of Competence.” It can be found on Academia.edu.
WAY BACK MACHINE
2010 Jiny Pohled (Queer Eye) Festival, Prague, Czech Republic “How to Rock like a Girl”
EMP2010: Nostalgia for cassette culture in the MP3 age (presented in absentia on cassette)
EMP2009: Computer Love(r)s
EMP2009 Co-organizer: Dance This Mess Around: 2nd Annual Feminist Working Group
IASPM-US 2009: Tape-trading, Tuzex-shopping Depešaci: Depeche Mode as underground megastars in 1980s Czechoslovakia
IASPM-US 2008: Myspace is the Message: How a Czech Band Went from Local to Transnational in a 2.0 Minute
EMP 2008: Getting Closer: Extreme Loudness and the Body in Pain/Pleasure
EMP2008 Co-organizer: Feminist Working Group
SPARK2007: Attention music trogs, snobs, plebes, elites: Bad may be better when writing about popular music
EMP2007: Selling Sad: How Hot Topic Made the Mall (Safe for the) Miserable
EMP2007: Organizer: Ellen Willis Tribute
IASPM-US2006: O Superman: Gender and pop music performance by art-school trained musicians
EMP2006: “Poo pooing pop’s poseurs: An analysis of anxiety around liking art-school trained musicians and their work”
EMP2005: Dancing, democracy and kitsch: Poland’s Disco-Polo
EMP2004: The Art of Noise: How the Providence, RI Loft Scene Hears its Godawful Racket
EMP2003: The film remains the same: The making and deconstruction of rock myths in punk music documentaries
EDUCATION
M. Phil, Columbia University Music Department; M.A. Columbia University Music Department; B.A. New York University