Stanford Humanities Center
Sockness presents two playlists around the theme of hope, bringing together both religious and secular music.
As a space, pop culture is an epicenter for queerness; music, especially, has a history of giving LGBTQ subjects representation, visibility, and an opening to be subversive. In this article, Ghisyawan and Kumar focus on soca and chutney-soca as music genres that engage in the complicated politics of queerness and queer desires.
Lee examines examines the music, video, performances, and social media presence of singer-songwriter Mitski, and poet and writer Ocean Vuong, to consider how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to Asian American asociality. Lee responds to the idea of “Asian American asociality” which speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem for and of sociality, as assimilated, yet socially isolated, unrelatable subjects.
