In this episode, I chat with Professor Dan DiPiero. Professor DiPiero is a musician, writer, and Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University whose research explores affective connections between aesthetics and politics in U.S. improvised and popular music. He is the author of Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life (University of Michigan Press, 2022), a finalist for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Prize, and Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl, forthcoming with University of Michigan Press. His writing has appeared in Jazz and Culture, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other venues. A fierce advocate for popular music studies, Professor DiPiero serves as secretary of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US) and co-founded the Music and Sound Studies Working Group at the Cultural Studies Association.n dipiero
