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DESCRIPTION:Doctoral Colloquium: Prof. Lauron Kehrer (guest\, Musicology)\n
 \nTitle: Context Collapse and the Ethics of Queer Sampling in Beyoncé’s Re
 naissance\n\nUsing Beyoncé’s queer sampling of Big Freedia and other Black
  queer and trans artists on her album Renaissance (2022) as a case study\,
  this talk seeks to complicate our understanding of the ethics of contempo
 rary sampling practices. The album extensively engages with what we might 
 call queer sampling – the sampling of musical work by queer and trans arti
 sts or sonic references associated with LGBTQ music cultures in order to c
 reate a musical experience that sounds queer. This talk argues that queer 
 sampling in this album situates Black queer and trans artists (and listene
 rs) as central to the project and to Black music practices while simultane
 ously creating a context collapse in which queer experiences are folded in
 to other minoritized experiences. This use of queer sampling also occurs i
 n lieu of more direct collaboration with Black queer artists that\, while 
 entirely legal and somewhat beneficial to queer artists\, nevertheless con
 tributes to this context collapse and a lack of visibility and artistic co
 ntrol for those artists.\n\nDr. Lauron J. Kehrer is an Associate Professor
  of Music at Smith College and currently serves as President of the Intern
 ational Association for the Study of Popular Music\, U.S. Branch. Their re
 search focuses on the intersections of race\, gender\, and sexuality in co
 ntemporary American popular music\, especially hip hop. Kehrer has publish
 ed articles in American Music\, Journal of the Society for American Music\
 , Popular Music and Society\, Journal of Popular Music Studies\, and Popul
 ar Culture Studies Journal. Their first book\, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cu
 ltures\, Communities\, and Contemporary Performance (University of Michiga
 n Press 2022) examines the work of Black queer and trans artists in hip ho
 p. They were awarded the 2024 Marcia Herndon Article Award for exceptional
  ethnomusicological work in gender and sexuality for their article\, “‘Sis
 sy Style: Race\, Gender\, and Sexuality in New Orleans Bounce Dance” (Jour
 nal of Popular Music Studies). They are currently co-editing a volume with
  Stephanie Jensen-Moulton called “Better Be Good to Me”: American Popular 
 Songs as Domestic Violence Narratives (under contract with University of M
 ichigan Press).\n\nThe Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n
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LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Lauron Kehrer
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