[Commlist] NANO: New American Notes Online publishes issue 16 on gender, genre, and popular music

/NANO: New American Notes Online/ has just announced the publication of 
special issue 16:


      Special Issue 16: “This Is What Makes Us Girls: Gender, Genre, and
      Popular Music,” is the result of a collaboration between guest
      editors Erin Kappeler (Tulane University) and Ryan Tracy (The
      Graduate Center, CUNY), the article authors, and /NANO/’s editors
      (Sean Scanlan, founder and editor, and Lucas Kwong, assistant 
editor).


      Guest editors Erin Kappeler and Ryan Tracy describe the purpose of
      this special issue:____

We hope that readers will connect to the scholarly discussions about 
popular music’s theorization of gender and genre–both celebratory and 
critical–represented in this special issue. “This Is What Makes Us 
Girls” provides a number of inroads into critically examining popular 
music’s role in proposing theories about who we are and what we desire, 
as well as the limits of doing so when mediated by a music industry 
systemically riven with inequalities of race, gender, and class. Article 
topics range from popular music’s roots in African American expressive 
culture, Megan Thee Stallion’s martialing of the neologism “hot girls” 
toward Black women’s empowerment, the overtones of Christian soteriology 
in Lady Gaga’s notion of “stupid love,” contestations of friendship 
between hip-hop artists City Girls and Saucy Santana, Jacques Derrida’s 
im-possible “solicitation” of deconstruction (and David Bowie), and our 
own reading of Lana Del Rey’s provocative representations of gender, 
race, national identity, and sexuality. With Special Issue 16 of NANO, 
we hope to have gathered fresh ideas about popular music’s 
ever-expanding genres and genders, taking the pulse of what’s happening 
today without losing track of the origins of this dizzying discourse.

Table of Contents:*____*

• Editor’s Introduction for NANO Special Issue 16: ”What’s Genre Got to 
Do (Got to Do) With It?”____

by Erin Kappeler and Ryan Tracy____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Editors-Introduction-for-NANO-Special-Issue-16-This-Is-What-Makes-Us-Girls-Gender-Genre-and-Popular-Music 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Editors-Introduction-for-NANO-Special-Issue-16-This-Is-What-Makes-Us-Girls-Gender-Genre-and-Popular-Music>______



• An Interview with Melissa A. Webber, Curator of the Hogan Archive of 
New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University____

by Erin Kappeler and Ryan Tracy____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/An-Interview-with-Melissa-A-Weber-Curator-Hogan-Archive-of-Tulane-University 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/An-Interview-with-Melissa-A-Weber-Curator-Hogan-Archive-of-Tulane-University>____


• Thee Megan Movement: Defining and Exploring Hot Girl Rhetoric____

  by Ebony Perro____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Thee-Megan-Movement-Defining-and-Exploring-Hot-Girl-Rhetoric 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Thee-Megan-Movement-Defining-and-Exploring-Hot-Girl-Rhetoric>____



• Stupid Love: Notes on a Lyric by Lady Gaga____

  by Patrick Clement James____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Stupid-Love-Notes-on-a-Lyric-by-Lady-Gaga 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Stupid-Love-Notes-on-a-Lyric-by-Lady-Gaga>____



• “Y’all don’t work jobs. Bitch, y’all is a job”: Deconstructing 
Friendship and Labor with the City Girls____

by William H. Mosley, III____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Y-all-don-t-work-jobs-Bitch-y-all-is-a-job-Deconstructing-Friendship-and-Labor-with-the-City-Girls 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/Y-all-don-t-work-jobs-Bitch-y-all-is-a-job-Deconstructing-Friendship-and-Labor-with-the-City-Girls>____



• The Solicitation of Deconstruction (/If I never see the English…/)//____

  by David Wills____

https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/The-Solicitation-of-Deconstruction-If-I-never-see-the-English 
<https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue16/The-Solicitation-of-Deconstruction-If-I-never-see-the-English>____



/NANO/’s Homepage: https://www.nanocrit.com/ <https://www.nanocrit.com/>____



New Call-for-Papers for issue 17: https://nanocrit.com/Submissions 
<https://nanocrit.com/Submissions>




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