Description: Dives into electronic music subgenres that emerged in the 2010s, through the music of "witch house" band Salem, against a backdrop of cultural malaise.
Brief description: Joanna Demers is Professor of Musicology at USC Thornton School of Music, USA. She is a musicologist specializing in popular and experimental music since 1950, and has written books and articles on electronic music, intellectual property law, and aesthetics. She is the author of Listening Through the Noise: the Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music (2010), Drone and Apocalypse: An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World (2015), Anatomy of Thought Fiction: CHS Report, 2214 (2017), which relate tendencies in recent music to larger philosophical issues.