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Friday, April 15 • 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Staging the Voice
Pier Dominguez, “Of Whistles, Coos, and Doo-Wop: The Racial Kitsch of Mariah Carey’s Vocal Theatrics”
Justin D Burton, “Safe Sex, Pay Checks, and Cracked Voices: Rae Sremmurd’s Disappearing Club”
Samantha Bennett, “The Tech-Processual ‘Staging’ of Siouxsie Sioux’s Voice Inside the Panoramic Peepshow”

Moderators
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Mark Katz

Mark Katz is Tyson Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor... Read More →

Speakers
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Samantha Bennett

Samantha Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Australian National University. She is published in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, and The Oxford Handbook on Music & Virtuality. Her first book, Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Contemporary... Read More →
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Justin D Burton

Justin D Burton is Assistant Professor of Music at Rider University. His research revolves around critical race and gender theory in hip-hop and pop, and his current book project is called Posthuman Pop. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Journal of Popular Music Studies 27:4 (Sounding... Read More →
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Pier Dominguez

Pier Dominguez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Brown University. His dissertation, “The Melodramatics of Queer Race,” examines media and performance modes dismissed as melodramatic, trashy, kitschy, schmaltzy, and inauthentic. Formerly a teen biographer of Christina... Read More →


Friday April 15, 2016 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
Demo Lab EMP Museum, 325 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109