Liberation and Contagion in the Music of MIA

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Global Media Cultures

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

20 episodes

8 months ago

The Global Media Cultures podcast introduces scholarship about the world to the world. Every episode of the podcast showcases an academic article about media in a global context. The author of the article engages in conversation with the podcast host and discusses the research process, context on the subject matter, and any connections between their research and relevant current events. This public humanities project aims to connect researchers of global media studies, particularly junior scholars, to an audience beyond the academy. It is intended as a teaching resource for those teaching in higher education and as an introduction to these topics for anyone interested in the roles that media play in our understanding of the world.

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Liberation and Contagion in the Music of MIA

Global Media Cultures

45 minutes 48 seconds

4 years ago

Liberation and Contagion in the Music of MIA

In this week's episode, guest Ronak Kapadia discusses his article "Sonic Contagions: Bird Flu, Bandung, and the Queer Cartographies of MIA" which analyzes the work of Sri Lankan diasporic musician, producer, and designer Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam (a.k.a. MIA). MIA's music offers an opening to explore the unlikely intimacies between the diverse histories and political agendas of social movements and radical uprisings across the globe. Kapadia argues that prioritizing the sonic realm in MIA's work makes available alternative utopian possibilities, offering other ways of hearing and conceptualizing queer collectivity, belonging, and pleasure in the midst of the devastation wrought by security panics and constant warfare.

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