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The Sounds of Obsession: Subtle Menace in the Music of Yash Chopra’s “Darr”
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/d7npv-9gn02 The classic Hindi film, Darr (1993), directed by Yash Chopra, is the story of the stalker Rahul, played by Shah Rukh Khan, wreaking havoc on the lives of the...
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El Llanto Against I.C.E.: Toward a Latinx Sonic Phenomenology of the...
It is July 4, 2025. The air is hot; the sun is beaming on concrete and asphalt. Sweat is accumulating on my cotton Disrupt band t-shirt. My skin is sticky. Inside a suffocating room, the volume...
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The Absurdity and Authoritarianism of Now: My Chemical Romance’s The Black...
My Chemical Romance fans are speculating about new music after the band wiped their X account clean and wrapped up the Latin America leg of their tour this month. Whether another album is on the way...
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SO! Reads: Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests
Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests (Penn State University Press) is a book “about the sounds made by those seeking change” (5). It situates these sounds within a...
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SO! Reads: Marisol Negrón’s Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and...
I began reading Marisol Negrón’s Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings (Duke University Press, 2024) in earnest this summer, as Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYol” flooded...
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“Just for a Few Hours, We Was Free”: The Blues and Mapping Freedom in Sinners...
In the 2025 blockbuster Sinners, Ryan Coogler has a vampire story to tell. But before he can begin, he needs to tell another story—a blues one. Sinners opens with a voiceover thesis statement...
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Taters Gonna Tate. . .But Do Platforms Have to Platform?: Listening to the...
In March 2025, shortly after returning to the United States from Romania, where he and his brother Tristan had been held under house arrest for two years after being charged with human trafficking,...
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The Techno-Woman Warrior: K-pop and the Sound of Asian Futurism
I As a ’90s kid, I remember too well us school kids singing and dancing to the songs at the top of the charts on music shows such as Ingigayo (인기가요) and Music Bank (뮤직뱅크). It was what one might call...
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The Braids, The Bars, and the Blackness: Ruminations on Hip Hop’s World War...
A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith By now, it’s safe to say very few people have not caught wind of the biggest Hip-Hop battle of the 21st century: the clash between Kendrick Lamar and...
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Sonic Homes: The Sonic/Racial Intimacy of Black and Brown Banda Music in...
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Listening to MAGA Politics within US/Mexico’s Lucha Libre
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Technologies of Communal Listening: Resonance at the Museum of Contemporary...
In both sound studies and the sonic arts, the concept of “resonance” has increasingly played a central role in attuning listeners to the politics of sound. The term itself is borrowed from acoustics,...
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“In My Life”: Loving Queerly and Singing Across Generations
Photo of Francisco and Emma Mecija in their apartment near Parliament Street. December 1975. Courtesy of Francisco and Emma Mecija. December 1975. The cold winds staked their claim over Toronto,...
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From Spanish to English to Spanish: How Shakira’s VMA Performance Showcases...
***This post is co-written by Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz On the night of September 12, Colombian pop star Shakira made history as the first predominantly Spanish-language artist to be...
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Ronca Realness: Voices that Sound the Sucia Body
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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“So Jao”: Sound, Death and the Postcolonial Politics of Cinematic Adaptation...
The beginning of this year witnessed a significant reportage on films inspired by the Kashmir conflict in India, occasioned by the release of Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files on March 11, 2022. The...
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Voice as Ecology: Voice Donation, Materiality, Identity
I first heard about voice donation while listening to “Being Siri,” an experimental audio piece about Erin Anderson donating her voice to Boston-based voice donation company, VocaliD. Like a digital...
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Mapping the Music in Ukraine’s Resistance to the 2022 Russian Invasion
24.02. Boy playing piano in Kharkiv, still from wleaming‘s video by author Note: To see these tweets and videos embedded on an interactive map, click here. In the late morning of February 24th, 2022,...
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Listening in Plain Sight: The Enduring Influence of U.S. Air Guitar
The mention of “air guitar” might conjure images of the Bill and Ted series. Or Risky Business. Or maybe even Joe Cocker at Woodstock. You might think of air guitar as an embarrassing fan gesture. So...
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Blank Space and “Asymmetries of Childhood Innocence”
In 2015 a video of a child in an Internet café in the Philippines began to trend on social media sites. Titled, Kanta ng isang Anak para sa kanyang inang OFW “Blank Space“ (“Song of a child for her...
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