...Owen Coggins; Molly Geidel This article investigates representations of gender and work in the hit 2016 song “Rockabye” by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie in relation to a new orientation toward care labor and feminine performance we call “feminist realism.” Feminist realism, we...

... labor neoliberalism gender sexuality American music kitsch Coakley’s invocation of “champagne time” refers to the maestro’s trademark style of “champagne music.” Though Welk was a teetotaler who had milk and cookies before shows—and who once described unexpectedly enjoying a cocktail party...

... with professional teachers in participatory carnival ensembles ( blocos ). In probing teachers’ “pedagogical labor,” this article portrays oficinas as comprising a “capitalist participatory music industry.” By offering a case study on a carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement whose growth has...

... women’s ability to participate equitably in touring, specifically (1) that the job is a backroad for so-called “groupies” and romantic partners to gain illicit access; (2) that the merch table labor is gendered; and (3) that women’s place within live music itself is resultingly precarious. This rhetoric...