Dr. Alyx Vesey stops by to chat about her training in media studies, her life in popular music, and her two major monograph projects, one on feminized music merchandise and another on the history VH1. We talk about what it means to study popular music from a media perspective, how books are like houses, and how to research a TV show that no one seems to remember.
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Alyx’s book is Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century
Sensitive Topics: gender-based harassment; death of a parent; death of a friend; cancer
Show Timeline
Intro: 0:00
Guest background and training: 2:07
Extending Play: 24:01
VH1 Project: 43:50
What’s been making guest cry: 58:56
References
Hebdige, Dick. 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of a Style. Routledge.
James, Robin. Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism. Zer0 Books.
Levine, Elana. 2020. Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History. Duke University Press.
McRobbie, Angela. 1989. Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses: Anthology of Fashion and Music. Red Globe Press.
Palmer, Landon. 2020. Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom. Oxford University Press.
