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Kyle DeCoste (he/him) is a scholar of popular music from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Music at Tulane University and a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. In his work, he examines the ways that sound—and popular music in particular—is used to articulate and contest ideas about race, gender, class, and childhood. His work often makes use of ethnographic and collaborative methods. In his dissertation, Imagining Innocence: Black Popular Music and the Poetics of Childhood, he explores contemporary popular music aesthetics through lyrics, music videos, live shows, and autoethnography to affirm (Black) childhood as a space of freedom and possibility.

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Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game (American Made Music Series)
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Kyle DeCoste liked Reese's review of Can’t Be Faded: Twenty Years in the New Orleans Brass Band Game (American Made Music Series): " Can’t Be Faded Oct 20, 2023 946 Stockton Roof Review: Moving and insightful. Cool to mix the Daniel Karell (?) sociology stuff with the authentic NOLA interviews. Very moving part with Why. Lots on how to be a strong person, how to support others, the v" Read more of this review »
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