UPCOMING
“Gotta Get Down on Friday: Voice, Gender, Genre and Rebecca Black’s Viral Reclamation”
University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
4 October 2023
Colloquium
University of Maryland, Department of Music
27 October 2023
on Viral Sounds
University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities
1 November 2023
“It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem It’s Me”: Taylor Swift’s Midnights and TikTok Audio-bait
Taylor Swift: The Conference Era
Bloomington, Indiana – 3-5 November 2023
Colloquium
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Music
1 December 2023
“‘Use This Sound’: Viral Musicking and the Noisy Path to TikTok”
University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria
Virtual – 9 January 2024
RECENT
“It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem It’s Me”: Taylor Swift’s Midnights and TikTok Audio-bait
International Association for the Study of Popular Music – International
Minneapolis, MN – 26-30 June 2023
Conference Co-Organizer
Music and the Internet conference
Chicago, IL and virtual – 9-10 June 2023
Never Gonna Give You Up: Digital Afterlives, Memetic Aesthetics, and the Dynamic Perseverance of the Rickroll
Internet Musicking: Popular Music and Online Cultures
Virtual – 20-22 May 2022
Colloquium Speaker, University of Oregon Steve Larson Distinguished Lecturer Series
Virtual – 4 March 2022
Colloquium Speaker, “Platforming Virality: TikTok and the Digital Arrangement of Musical Contagion,”
Cornell University – November 2021
Guest Respondent, Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance
Virtual – September 2021
The Musical (Metadata) Hooks of TikTok
Listening to (Mainstream) Popular Music in 2020: Sounds and Practices
Innsbruck, Austria/Virtual – May 2020 (Rescheduled June 2021)
Music as Sync and Hook in the TikTok Bedroom
American Studies Association Annual Conference
Baltimore, MD – November 2020 (Rescheduled October 2021)
Taylor Swift Study Day: Eras, Narrative, Digital Music and Media
Virtual – 17 July 2021
Co-Organizer
Hearing #GaylorSwift: Queer Musical (Conspiracy) Theorizing in the Internet Age
Society for American Music Annual Conference
Tacoma, WA – June 2021
Digital Listening to the Bach Chaconne
Hochschule Luzern Szenenwechsel 2021: Re-Mix – January 2021
Music as Sync and Hook in the TikTok Bedroom
American Musicological Society Annual Conference
Virtual Conference – November 2020
Autoplaying, Unmuting, Attending: (Re)formatting the Twenty-First-Century Digital Sensorium
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Virtual Conference – October 2020
Algorithms and Earworms: Viral Musicking and How We Got to TikTok
University of Bristol Research Seminar
Virtual Colloquium – 13 October 2020
Viral Musicking: Aesthetics and Iterations in Online Contagion
Association of Internet Researchers conference
Virtual Conference – October 2020
Music Scholarship at a Distance
March-May 2020
Co-founder and Co-organizer
The Musical (Metadata) Hooks of TikTok
PopCon 2020
(originally Seattle, WA – April 2020)
Virtual Conference – September 2020
Making Surveillance Sing: Internet Musicalizing in the Age of YouTube and the Smartphone
Like, Share and Subscribe: YouTube, Music and Cyberculture Before and After the New Decade
Lisbon, Portugal/Virtual – October 2020
(Corona)Viral Musicking: Sounding Sanitation and Social Distance from Perotin to Cardi B
Music Scholarship at a Distance
Virtual Colloquium – May 2020
Opera Goes Viral, Obviously: Operatic Novelties in the Social Media Assemblage
Opera and Popular Culture After 1900 conference
Texas Christian University – February 2020
Going Viral: Sound, Circulation, and Viral Musicking
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Bloomington, IN – November 2019
“<loop>: Viral Musicking and the Aesthetics of Contagion”
Colloquium in the Department of Music, Wheaton College
Norton, MA – October 2019
“I am no longer looking forward to the weekend”: Hating, Loving, Remixing “Friday”
IASPM-US Annual Conference
New Orleans, LA – March 2019
Sound On: Attention, Autoplaying Video, and the Digital Sensorium
Sound and Music in the Prism of Sound Studies Conference
CRAL/EHESS, Paris, France – January 2019
Viral Musicking
Music and the Internet Study Day
University of Oxford – December 2018
Viral Musicking; Contagious Listening
American Musicological Society Annual Conference
San Antonio, TX – November 2018
Hearing #Kaylor: Taylor Swift, Karlie Kloss, and Queer Musical Imaginings of Reputation
Fan Studies Network North America Conference
DePaul University, Chicago – October 2018
“Substance and Profundity”: Groupmuse, the Gig Economy, and Classical Music in the 21st Century
The Idea of Canon in the 21st Century Conference
Smith College, Northampton MA – September 2018
“Unmute This”: Autoplaying Video and Vernacular Media Theory
Music and the Moving Image XIII
New York University, NY – May 2018
“I am no longer looking forward to the weekend”: Hating, Loving, Remixing ‘Friday’”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Toronto, ON – March 2018
“From Pieces to Listening Practices”
Musicology in the Age of (Post)Globalization Conference
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NY – April 2018
“Groupmuse, the Gig Economy, and Classical Music in the 21st Century”
Society for American Music Annual Conference
Kansas City, MO – March 2018
“Viral Musicking; Contagious Listening”
Techniques of Listening Conference
University of Minnesota, MN – October 2017
Invited Respondent, “Urban Soundscape, History, and the City” panel
Music and Sound Studies Workshop
Columbia University, NY – September 2017
“Groupmuse, the Gig Economy, and Classical Music in the 21st Century”
Branding ‘Western Music’
University of Bern, Switzerland – September 2017
“Vocal Power, Vocal Pleasure, and Artifice as Authority in Beyoncé’s ‘Sandcastles'”
Feminist Theory and Music Conference
San Francisco, CA – July 2017
“‘We We We So Excited’: Hating, Loving, Remixing ‘Friday'”
Music and the Moving Image XII
New York University, NY – May 2017
“BEYONCÉ: How Viral Techniques Circulated a Visual Album”
American Musicological Society
82nd Annual Meeting
Vancouver, BC – November 2016