Roundtable: Noise Breeding Silence—Heavy Metal Voices
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Steve Waksman is Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. His publications include the books Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience (Harvard University Press, 1999), and This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover...
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Speakers
Esther Clinton earned her PhD in Folklore from Indiana University and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include folk and popular narrative, Norse mythology, folklore of belief, proverbs...
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Laina Dawes is the author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (Bazillion Points, 2012). She is also a music and cultural critic whose writing can be found in print and online magazines, such as Hazlitt, Bitch, SPIN, Cuepoint, Wondering...
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Joan Jocson-Singh is an Acquisitions Librarian at Columbia University in New York. She received her library science and archival degrees from Pratt Institute and is currently pursuing a second master’s in anthropology at Hunter College. She is also a book reviewer for CHOICE Library...
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Kat Katz is a vocalist, artist, and poet from Northern Virginia. She has been singing in heavy metal bands for over 16 years. Her previous band, Salome, toured across the U.S. and released multiple EPs and albums from 2006-2011. Salome’s 2010 full length, Terminal, received positive...
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Jeremy Wallach is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001 (2008) and co-editor of a special issue of Asian Music on Indonesian popular music genres (with Esther...
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Friday April 15, 2016 10:45am - 12:45pm PDT
JBL Theater