Daniel Cavicchi
@danielcavicchi.bsky.social
Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fan studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
Brilliantly provocative essay from Christian Wiman: “I aim to call into question some of our most settled ideas, and lay a little depth charge under some of the dualisms that define and derange us.” harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Tune of Things, by Christian Wiman
Is consciousness God?
harpers.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Brilliantly provocative essay from Christian Wiman: “I aim to call into question some of our most settled ideas, and lay a little depth charge under some of the dualisms that define and derange us.” harpers.org/archive/2025...
Rewatching Travis Head’s century in the first Ashes test match. A spectacular innings, obviously, but I especially love the drama of the stadium audience responding. Is there such a thing as (fandom) scholarly pleasure? #Ashes2025 #fandom #cricket
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Rewatching Travis Head’s century in the first Ashes test match. A spectacular innings, obviously, but I especially love the drama of the stadium audience responding. Is there such a thing as (fandom) scholarly pleasure? #Ashes2025 #fandom #cricket
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Yours truly speaking about the super cool previously unreleased Artistics and Talking Heads demos which are available today at your local independent record store.
Talking Heads' Chris Frantz on the newly resurfaced 'Psycho Killer' demo
Podcast Episode · Rhode Island Report · 11/27/2025 · 22m
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November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Yours truly speaking about the super cool previously unreleased Artistics and Talking Heads demos which are available today at your local independent record store.
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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Announcing the latest issue of Participations! (Feel free to share :) ).
This issue, we feature articles on BookTok, K-Drama, Cinephiliac memory, inclusivity in Harry Potter fanfic and work on audiences in Ghana and Flanders! :)
www.participations.org
This issue, we feature articles on BookTok, K-Drama, Cinephiliac memory, inclusivity in Harry Potter fanfic and work on audiences in Ghana and Flanders! :)
www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
www.participations.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Announcing the latest issue of Participations! (Feel free to share :) ).
This issue, we feature articles on BookTok, K-Drama, Cinephiliac memory, inclusivity in Harry Potter fanfic and work on audiences in Ghana and Flanders! :)
www.participations.org
This issue, we feature articles on BookTok, K-Drama, Cinephiliac memory, inclusivity in Harry Potter fanfic and work on audiences in Ghana and Flanders! :)
www.participations.org
Jesse Green, "Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running.” [See also: Marvin McAllister, *White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour*, UNC Press, 2003].
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running (Gift Article)
The nearly forgotten Black stars, songwriters and strivers who made Broadway what it is today.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Jesse Green, "Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running.” [See also: Marvin McAllister, *White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour*, UNC Press, 2003].
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Arrived in the mail today. Time for rereading.
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Arrived in the mail today. Time for rereading.
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist | The Booker Prizes
As the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is announced, we’ve picked out the most interesting facts, trends and themes that have emerged in this year’s selection
thebookerprizes.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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My article on how the performing arts can be incorporated as a method for public humanities has just been published in the online, open-access journal, Public Humanities. Free to download. #publichumanities #AcademicSky #PerformingArts #HigherEd #theatre #arts
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My article on how the performing arts can be incorporated as a method for public humanities has just been published in the online, open-access journal, Public Humanities. Free to download. #publichumanities #AcademicSky #PerformingArts #HigherEd #theatre #arts
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI
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September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just got an email that they're doing a 2025 reprint of The Past, Present and Future of Fan-Fiction, which now is also free to download! Essays by a lot of good people: mdpi.com/books/reprin... #mdpi via @MDPI
New essay on early 20th-century Gilbert and Sullivan fandom, by James Brooks Kuykendall, in the latest Transformative Works and Cultures (Vol. 46):
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Fandom and the early years of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1924–45)
| Transformative Works and Cultures
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New essay on early 20th-century Gilbert and Sullivan fandom, by James Brooks Kuykendall, in the latest Transformative Works and Cultures (Vol. 46):
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Quick note: Sheryl Kaskowitz’s *A Chance to Harmonize* came out in paperback today. Great read about the controversial music programs of the New Deal’s Resettlement Administration and, especially, the women--Margaret Valiant and Sidney Robertson--who shaped them.
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ch...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ch...
A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time
How FDR's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression—One Song at a Time
bookshop.org
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Quick note: Sheryl Kaskowitz’s *A Chance to Harmonize* came out in paperback today. Great read about the controversial music programs of the New Deal’s Resettlement Administration and, especially, the women--Margaret Valiant and Sidney Robertson--who shaped them.
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ch...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-ch...
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Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska
Studio versions of the stark, home-recorded album have never been issued, but will appear alongside new Springsteen biopic
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Feeling old: I actually have to explain, on the first day of class, that the brain is the most important and enduring “education tool."
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Feeling old: I actually have to explain, on the first day of class, that the brain is the most important and enduring “education tool."
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psst: new Pop Conference call. Repost please. www.popconference.org
PopCon | 2026
PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.
www.popconference.org
August 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
psst: new Pop Conference call. Repost please. www.popconference.org
Washington Black on Disney+ is an outstanding watch; I hope it encourages people to read Esi Edugyan's novel, as well. #WashingtonBlack #EsiEdugyan
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Washington Black on Disney+ is an outstanding watch; I hope it encourages people to read Esi Edugyan's novel, as well. #WashingtonBlack #EsiEdugyan
My History of Listening seminar this Fall will open with David Toop: "Because sound vanishes into air and past time, the history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent’ arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature."
August 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
My History of Listening seminar this Fall will open with David Toop: "Because sound vanishes into air and past time, the history of listening must be constructed from the narratives of myth and fiction, 'silent’ arts such as painting, the resonance of architecture, auditory artefacts and nature."
New online essay from *Popular Music,* with open access: Chris Anderton and Paul Goodge, "Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience | Popular Music | Cambridge Core
Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience
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August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New online essay from *Popular Music,* with open access: Chris Anderton and Paul Goodge, "Alone in the Crowd? Live Music Audiences and Individual Experience.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My 12th Newport Jazz Festival this past weekend. Loved: Tyshawn Sorey Trio’s masterclass in composed improv; the surprising beauty of Fleck, Sanchez, and Castañeda's banjo/drums/harp combo; and Parlor Greens’ ferocious grooves. Long live the trio. #NewportJazzFestival
August 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My 12th Newport Jazz Festival this past weekend. Loved: Tyshawn Sorey Trio’s masterclass in composed improv; the surprising beauty of Fleck, Sanchez, and Castañeda's banjo/drums/harp combo; and Parlor Greens’ ferocious grooves. Long live the trio. #NewportJazzFestival
Favorite line from Richard Russo’s new book of essays, Life and Art: “Becoming educated, for my mother, was not unlike entering the witness protection program."
July 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Favorite line from Richard Russo’s new book of essays, Life and Art: “Becoming educated, for my mother, was not unlike entering the witness protection program."
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The Walkman was released this week in 1979, a few years later multiple US states tried to criminalize using a Walkman… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgot...
The Forgotten War on the Walkman
The Sony Walkman is now iconic of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music, rather than renting it.
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Walkman was released this week in 1979, a few years later multiple US states tried to criminalize using a Walkman… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgot...
My first (and only) major public book signing was in 1998 at Boston’s Tower Records, during a listening party for Springsteen’s *Tracks.* Needless to say, I will be completely immersed in *Tracks II* for the next couple of months. #Springsteen #TracksII #TrampsLikeUs
June 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My first (and only) major public book signing was in 1998 at Boston’s Tower Records, during a listening party for Springsteen’s *Tracks.* Needless to say, I will be completely immersed in *Tracks II* for the next couple of months. #Springsteen #TracksII #TrampsLikeUs
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New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!
📣 New SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Popular Music Studies on MUSIC, DIGITALIZATION & IP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH! Articles by Geoff Baker, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Pablo Infante-Amate, Aditi Deo, Oliver Bown and me, w/an intro by Born and me. Dig in! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...
Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!
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On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Mark V. Campbell and Murray Forman, co-editors of Hip Hop Archives.
Watch the full In Conversation here 👉ow.ly/FSP050VZajw
Watch the full In Conversation here 👉ow.ly/FSP050VZajw
June 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Mark V. Campbell and Murray Forman, co-editors of Hip Hop Archives.
Watch the full In Conversation here 👉ow.ly/FSP050VZajw
Watch the full In Conversation here 👉ow.ly/FSP050VZajw
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We're pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.1, spanning Frisian identity in Aotearoa/NZ, Canadianness & the Barenaked Ladies, Turkish quality drama, seagoing spectators, transnational identities, conspiracies & a special section on Girl Audiences in the 'Girlscape'! www.participations.org
Participations – Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
www.participations.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We're pleased to announce the publication of issue 21.1, spanning Frisian identity in Aotearoa/NZ, Canadianness & the Barenaked Ladies, Turkish quality drama, seagoing spectators, transnational identities, conspiracies & a special section on Girl Audiences in the 'Girlscape'! www.participations.org