Daphne Carr

Q: What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails?

A: March 2011: Issue 78 of 33 1/3 Series, Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine

The 33 1/3 Series is known for having each author take a unique perspective on the music and culture of one specific album. Canonical? Germinal? Important? Memorable? Genius? Most of the books take that line of argument, while a few others use the sound and times of one particular album to evoke a moment, set a place, develop characters. Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine is one of the latter, a work of deep ethnographic and sociological work into the life, times, and mythology of the band, tracing the fictions fans and the media have told about Trent Reznor. Continue reading “Pretty Hate Machine 33 1/3 book project”

The Wildwoods are four shore communities (North Wildwood, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, West Wildwood) on a barrier island on the southernmost edge of the South Jersey peninsula. The island has been a center for working class summer recreation for over 100 years and has a rich and unique history generated by tourism, amusements, entertainment, local businesses, and an active local government.

From 2002-2006 I worked on The Wildwoods Oral History Project, a project to interview a diverse array of year-round residents to create an archive of stories about the post-World War II era in the Wildwoods. In December 2006 more than 900 pages of original oral history transcripts and photography as well as family-generated genealogies and copies of personal effects and memorabilia were deposited in two local history museum archives. This was the completetion of the first stage of my Wildwoods project.

Copies of the original sound recordings for this oral history project reside in the George F. Boyer Museum collection (51 tapes of 34 interview subjects).

Copies of this printed collection and a digital archive (CDR) of all the texts appear in the following locations:

George F. Boyer Museum
3907 Pacific Avenue
Wildwood, NJ 08260

Hereford Inlet Lighthouse
111 North Central Avenue
North Wildwood, NJ 08260

Here is a brief description of the project’s aims and methods:
The Wildwoods Oral History Project: Project Overview

Click below for an index of interview participants and a brief description of topics discussed in each interview:
Wildwoods Oral History Project: Index of Interviews

Contemporary:

Kate Bush, The Dreaming Pitchfork (Kate Bush day)

 

The Back Catalog

This page serves as my archive for music journalism, criticism, columns, essays, and other writing published either on-line or in print. If there is a piece listed that has no link or a broken link and you would like to read the article, please email me for a text or pdf copy.

Lists of Raves, Pazz and jop, and Jackin Pop Ballots

2013 Writing

What We Learned at Depeche Mode’s Delta Machine Listening Party

2012 Writing

On Zola Jesus, Thirlwelled

On Nicki Minaj recorded

On “indie classical”

On Lady Jaye, filmed

On Julia Holter debuted

On Magnetic Fields recorded

On Frank Tovey remembered

On Skrillex live

On Sharon Van Etten live

2011 Writing

From Patti, with Love, Capital NY (Dec. 2011)

Keep Kate Bush Weird! (Nov. 2011)

Run The World: A Global View of Women’s Place at the Top of the Pops Flaunt (fall 2011)

Idolator Pop Critics Poll (aka Jackin Pop) 2007

Jackin Pop 2006
Pazz & Jop 2005
Pazz & Jop 2004

 

Flaunt, summer 2010 “Tramp to the Beat: A Discovery of the Czech Republic’s Americana”

July 2008

Babe, Terror “nasa goodbye” for Paper Thin Walls

Nico Muhly Mothertongue for LA Weekly

June 2008

Abe Vigoda “Bear Hands” for Paper Thin Walls

May 2008

Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Free Music and Creative Competition for LA Weekly

No Fun Fest for Pitchfork Media

April 2008

Boris, HEALTH, and Wighnomy Brothers for LA Weekly

February 2008

Growing “Lateral” for Paper Thin Walls

January 2008

Tom Petty’s LA for LA Weekly

“In The Mix” for Idolator’s Pop Critics Poll

Tuxedomoon “Big Olive” at Paper Thin Walls

My current work is on the conditions of possibility for the NYPD to use LRAD on civilian publics.

I have done historical work on Czech popular music.

Here is my list of conference papers.

Here is my contemporary and historical scholarly service.

 

Sound Studies Caucus, American Studies Association

HISTORICAL PROJECTS

The EMP Pop Conference Feminist Working Group , founder

IASPM-US Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, co-founder

CZECH

I have conducted research on cultures of music, exchange, and value using feminist ethnography and critical cultural theory on Czech underground music cultures.

This scholarship engages with a variety of disciplines including post-reflective anthropology, exchange theory, science and technology studies, network theory, the sociology of taste, performance studies, cultural studies, and queer theory, and feminist theory. I generally focused on the following aspects of popular music: circulation, political economy, fine art/pop crossovers, bad taste, pop music avant gardes, popular music criticism, the cultures of recording, reproduction, distribution and playback technologies, and audience reception.

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

Oct 2018 “Listening to Police Sexual Assault in the Dark Satire of Lil Wayne’s R&B hit ‘Mrs. Officer'” ASAP/10 New Orleans, LA

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

Muff the Police! Sonic Care at Demonstrations

This is a zine on sound weaponry use by police. It offers tips on scene assessment and readiness for exposure to the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at public demonstrations. It also offers some history on police sound and a little bit of info about general acoustic trauma.

This is a work in progress and I very much look forward to developing better versions with more information, including versions with original info-graphics and illustrations. Get in touch if you can help! daphnegacarr at gmail.com

Muff the Police Reading Copy (1.0) 5/31/17

Muff_the_Police!print version(1.0 5/31/17) (for 2 sided 8.5×11 zine)

I’m currently at work on a research project on the historical use of police sound communications technologies, with a special focus on the use of sounding technologies within crowd policing in New York City.

This site will be updated as projects evolve out my work.

ONGOING

Sound of the Police Tumblr: News, reports, music videos, and sounds

@PoliceSound Twitter: (linked to Tumblr) retweets on sound/music and policing as well as police reform initiatives, police brutality victim justice information

COMPLETED PROJECTS

5/2017: Muff the Police! Sonic Care at Demonstrations, a zine created to educate activists and organizers about what police sound is and how is affects the psychology and physiology of those at protest actions. This zine focuses pretty heavily on the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD).