Contortions to Match Your Confusion: Digital Disfigurement and the Music of Arca

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¹ Marty Preciado, “Meet Svntv Mverte, The Houston Duo Serving Up A Collision Of #CulturaDura, Gutteral Dancefloor Rhythms,” Remezcla, 18 September 2014, http://remezcla.com/features/meet-svnte-mverte-the-houston-duo-serving-up-a-collision-of-infectious-gutteral-dancefloor-rhythms.

² Wayne Marshall, “Digital Rhythm: The loopy origins of dembow and the knotty dancehall roots of reggaeton,” Wax Poetics, 28 January 2014, http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/digital-rhythm.

³ Jessica Hopper, “The Invisible Woman: A Conversation with Björk,” Pitchfork, 21 January 2015, http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9582-the-invisible-woman-a-conversation-with-bjork.

⁴ Misty Sidell, “GHE20G0TH1K Party Initiates New Fashion Trend,” The Daily Beast, 11 April 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/11/ghe20-g0th1k-party-initiates-new-fashion-trend.html.

⁵ https://soundcloud.com/dummymag/dummy-mix-181-total-freedom.

⁶ https://soundcloud.com/arca1000000/arca-hips-dont-lie.

⁷ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hips_Don%27t_Lie.

⁸ https://twitter.com/shakira/status/540608069076787200.

⁹ Thomas Gorton, “jesse kanda: child's play,” Dazed, 22 June 2014, http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/20250/1/jesse-kanda-childs-play.

¹⁰ Sasha Geffen, “Chris Cunningham, Jesse Kanda and The Grotesque Femininities of Arca's ‘Xen’ Video,” Pitchfork, 19 November 2014, http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/558-new-flesh-jesse-kandas-music-videos-subvert-the-myth-of-the-feminine-pristine.

¹¹ Kate Hutchinson, “Arca: ‘Nothing is off limits emotionally,’” The Guardian, 31 October 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/31/arca-bjork-kanye-west.

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Wayne Marshall

An assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist who studies the interplay between Caribbean and American music, sound reproduction technologies, and musical publics. He co-edited Reggaeton (2009) and has published in such journals as Popular Music, Callaloo, and The Wire, as well as his critically acclaimed blog, wayneandwax.com.