Annenberg Conversations on Gender: Gender, Power, and Popular Culture
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Dr. Perry B. Johnson and Dr. Courtney M. Cox will discuss how gender and popular culture collide in music and sport.
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About the Conversation:
Dr. Perry B. Johnson and Dr. Courtney M. Cox will discuss how gender and popular culture collide in music and sport.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Courtney M. Cox is Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues related to identity, technology, and labor within sport. Her current book project, Double Crossover: Gender, Politics, and
Performance in Basketball, considers how Black women and non-binary athletes maneuver through the global sports-media complex. She is also co-director (with Dr. Perry B. Johnson) of The Sound of Victory, a multi-platform digital humanities project located at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. She previously worked for ESPN, Longhorn Network, NPR-affiliate KPCC, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.
Perry B. Johnson, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication with a joint appointment at the Center for Media at Risk and the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication. Her primary research and practice focus on popular music and American cultural histories, with an emphasis on power, identity and belonging. Johnson is at work on the manuscript for her first book, a cultural history of sexual misconduct in America’s popular music industries, and working to establish an archive of sexual misconduct in popular music at Penn.
Johnson is also the co-director (with Dr. Courtney M. Cox) of The Sound of Victory, an interdisciplinary, multi-platform initiative dedicated to investigating the historical relationship between music/sound and sport and producer and co-host of Sounding Off, a podcast that highlights the voices of athletes, artists, and public intellectuals working at this cultural intersection. In this role, she is co-editing a new book project, The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport, and Society, which expands on this intersection to explore the socio-cultural influences, implications, and reverberations of music/sound and sport.
Johnson received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where she had a graduate affiliation in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and was a research fellow with The Popular Music Project at USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center.
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