Haverford College

Sonic Worlds: Christine Capetola

Monday, April 8, 2024

Haverford College

1. Talk: Kate Bush and Tracing "This Woman's Work" in 2010s Synthpop - Talk by Christine Capetola

4:30pm, VCAM 102

2. Listening Session: Cross-Decade Explorations in Synth-R&B

7:30pm, VCAM 201

Christine Capetola is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Their book project, Sonic Femmeness: Black Culture Makers, Felt History, and Vibrational Identity, theorizes that femmeness is a sonic, felt, and vibrational configuration that can help us make aesthetic and historical connections between the recent past and present moment. Capetola has published articles and chapters in Black, queer, and sound studies journals and volumes, along with essays and music criticism on pop music. Their most recent article was published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, and they guest edited “Sound and Affect in Times of Crisis,” a special issue of AMP: American Music Perspectives, with Dan DiPiero They publish essays about contemporary pop/R&B and emotionality at www.christinecapetola.com.

Organized by Gustavus Stadler, The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor; Professor of English; Director of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities. Sponsored by the Hurford Center’s Sonic Worlds initiative, VCAM, and the Department of English. 

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