Carr, Daphne

(B.A. Journalism/Music History/Graphic Design from New York University, 2001) is interested in the political economy, social meaning and production of popular music in the former Czechoslovakia from the late 1960s to the present. She has also written extensively on American underground musical cultures such as post-hardcore and noise, as with her 2004 EMP Pop Conference paper "The Art of Noise: How Providence, RI hears its godawful racket." As a music journalist, she has written for the Chicago Tribune, MOJO, the Wire, the Nation, the Village Voice and dozens of small, independent publications. She is also currently working on a book of oral histories collected in the Wildwoods, three adjacent shore towns on a barrier island in Southern New Jersey.
Email: dcg2105@columbia.edu