Relocating Rock in Resilience Discourse
In the finale to the first season of HBO’s The Penguin, organized crime mastermind Sofia Falcone/Gigante sets fire to her abusive father’s clothes and family mansion accompanied by indie rock veterans Sleigh Bells’ 2019 cover of “Where Did You Sleep…
“Girl, So Confusing,” femme cool, and resolution over resilience
In summer 2024, the figure of the “rock star”–someone who parties hard, does equally hard drugs, flouts rules of propriety, and lives a big, very spectacularly messy life–returned to the forefront of Anglophone pop culture, this time branded lime green…
On the “alt-” in alt-right and the “post-” in post-punk – more similar than you may think!
When philosopher Kwame Appiah asked “is the post- in postmodernism the post- in postcolonial?”, he was referring to their shared de-centering of (mainly) Eurocentric master narratives about universality, objectivity, and other Enlightenment values. When I riffed on his 1991 article…
What I wrote/did in 2024
It’s time again for the “everything I wrote/major accomplishments for the year” posts, and here’s mine! 2024 is the 15th year of Its Her Factory’s existence: I started over on Blogger, migrated to my own domain, and now I also…
Is the “alt-” in alt rock the “alt-” in alt-right?
After my “Alt Rock to Alt Right” panel at the 2024 American Musicological Society, my friend Brian Wright (buy his book!) half-jokingly asked me whether the ‘alt’ in alt-rock is the ‘alt’ in alt-right. (The joke is that I published…
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