Show Notes
Today’s ultra special guest is Dr. Morgan Bimm, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish NS and very dear friend. We talk about her dissertation on indie rock and girl cultures; her new project on playlists-as-method; the work of making friends in academia; and moooorrreeee.
Timestamps
0:00 intro
4:00 dissertation project and origin stories
29:00 playlists and citational politics
45:30 low culture and pedagogy
53:30 how we met :’)
1:06: what’s making guest cry
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References
Bannister, Matthew. 2006. White Boys, White Noise: Masculinities and 1980s Indie Guitar Rock. Routledge.
Bimm, Morgan. 2022. “Girl Music of the Indie Rock Persuasion: Amplifying Indie Through 2000s Girl Culture.” PhD Dissertation, York University.
DiPiero, Dan. 2025. Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl. University of Michigan Press.
Fonarow, Wendy. 2006. Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music. Wesleyan University Press.
Goodman, Lizzy. 2018. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011. Harper Collins.
Vesey, Alyx. 2021. “Selling Sonic Girlhood: Feminizing Indie Rock through Music Supervision on MTV’s Awkward.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60 (5): 217–242.
