![]() ![]() ![]() Karen has a forthcoming book with ForEdge Press on Why Karen Carpenter Matters, and has two books in progress: Normal Television: Critical Essays on Queer Spectatorship after the “New Normalcy,” and Empty Orchestra: Karaoke in Our Time. Her work has appeared in numerous venues in print and online, including academic journals such as Public Culture, Social Text, GLQ, American Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century Literature, as well popular venues like BuzzFeed Reader, Public Books and Sounding Out! The Sound Studies Blog. Karen Tongson is an associate professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California, and the author of the book Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011). Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | RadioPublic | Google Podcasts Guest: Karen Tongson In episode 52 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews podcaster and professor Karen Tongson about music and its relationship to place, the migratory and melodic flows between Manila and Los Angeles, how the Spice Girls can help us understand Adorno and Horkheimer, and the queer and transnational inspiration that Karen draws from her namesake, Karen Carpenter. What can popular music teach us about migration and cultural change? How can pleasure and joy help us redefine what it means to be a “serious” intellectual? What might be stimulating or even transformative about the sprawl of Southern California?
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