Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert Fitzgerald, "Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency" (UNC Press, 2025)
Episode 294
Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up …
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Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025)
Episode 50
Dom Ford joins Jana Byars to talk about Mytholudics: Game and Myth (DeGruyter Brill, 2025). Games create worlds made of many different elements, but …
1 year, 3 months ago
Tricia Starks, "Smoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Episode 95
How and when did Russia become a country of smokers? Why did makhorka and papirosy become ubiquitous products of tobacco consumption? Tricia Starks e…
1 year, 3 months ago
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Rock ‘n’ Roll in Germany: Hamburg from Burlesque to The Beatles, 1956-69" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Episode 800
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend. As Julia Sneeringer reveals in A Social His…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)
Episode 1423
From his early albums with the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa established a reputation as a musical genius who pushed the limits of culture throug…
1 year, 3 months ago
Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 163
With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and eventually became the dominant sound format in the first half of…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Episode 81
Sarah Teasley's Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022) unpicks the history of Japanese design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
Episode 1420
Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-e…
1 year, 3 months ago
Turning the Page, Tuning the Dial
Episode 10
In the tenth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell expands upon previous episodes to consider the various musical styles that emerged in New …
1 year, 3 months ago
Cameron Kunzelman, "The World is Born from Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games" (de Gruyter, 2022)
Episode 50
The World is Born From Zero is an investigation into the relationship between video games and science fiction through the philosophy of speculation. …
1 year, 3 months ago