...Amy Skjerseth Email: [email protected] LJ Müller . Hearing Sexism: Gender in the Sound of Popular Music. A Feminist Approach . Translated with Manu Reyes . Bielefeld : Transcript Publishing , 2022 . 208 pages. © 2024 by the International Association for the Study of Popular...

...Morgan Bimm; Kate Galloway; Amy Skjerseth [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] © 2023 by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US) 2023 Academic podcast studies has experienced a flurry...

...Amy Skjerseth Podcasts often blend journalistic investigation with personal reflection, from Serial to Switched on Pop . Their veneer of fiction-as-fact especially confounds representation when podcasts’ voice acting and sound design portray pop stars in caricatured dramatizations. This paper...

... and listeners that Royster shines light on Black radical actors and actions in and of country. Our closing book review is Amy Skjerseth’s review of LJ Müller’s Hearing Sexism: Gender in the Sound of Popular Music . Using feminist film and psychoanalytic theories, Hearing Sexism “argues that sexism...

...Andy Kelleher Stuhl; Alexandra Hui; Alexander Russo; Amy Skjerseth I also want to try a conceit here: figure 1 is an image—or rather, a series of three images—from the Picture Arrangement Test that had been developed by Silvan Tomkins and Daniel Horn in 1942, further refined in 1952. 1...

... performances that were consistent with the raucous Top 40 sound. In the end, then, Russo pushes us to consider technology, labor, and genre. It’s with this latter point that Amy Skjerseth closes out this panel by looking at auto-tune and the audiovisuality of Cher’s 1998 hit “Believe.” Taking seriously...

...,” edited by Morgan Bimm, Kate Galloway, and Amy Skjerseth which is on music podcasts. It features an issue introduction, five peer-reviewed articles, and a pithy response by Norma Coates. These articles are timely and touch on a variety of topics at the intersection of popular music studies and audio media...

... others rely on their audiences’ implicit willingness to “ride along” as they model a critical listening practice. Popular music podcasts work to place a song’s sonic features within a broader context of musical references—a move that scholars like Amy Skjerseth argue can make podcasting an inclusive...

... it shares Mailchimp as a sponsor and because Björk’s 2015 episode for “Stonemilker” ostensibly doubled as Sonic Symbolism ’s backdoor pilot. Sonic Symbolism best adheres to what Amy Skjerseth refers to as a “song-dissection podcast” as a distinct genre dedicated to compositional breakdowns. She cites...

... Amy Skjerseth refers to as “ride-along listening,” a listening technique where hosts play musical examples that isolate and compare musical features while the hosts comment instantaneously, examining the song’s production and reception and defining terminology in accessible ways for their listeners...

... on Pop , who, unlike music critics who preceded them, are wide-ranging in their analyses and find musical value in all of the music that they explore. In my opinion, they truly want to enhance their listeners’ experience and enjoyment of popular music and do a fine job of it. 3. Skjerseth, Amy...