Thesiss

In the 1990s, the US poetry academy sought to create scholarship that represented diverse identities and appealed to public audiences. However, the poetry establishment misses a crucial opportunity to reconsider who might be said to count as a scholar, even as new forms of schol…

This dissertation examines the matter of authenticity with respect to audio recordings. In the early 1990s, the term “lo-fi” (“low-fidelity”) emerged as a label used to categorize many different types of popular music. Amid this widespread use, the word did not consistently poin…