Matt Sakakeeny
Biographic Data
| ID | 122662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Sakakeeny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakakeeny |
| SIGNATURE | SAKAKEENY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2042-1336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conceptualizing Brass Music as Popular Music
As a relatively stable and predictable cultural formation, the brass band is an idiomatic ensemble of wind and percussion instruments originally organized by militaries, governments, churches, and other formal institutions. Yet brass bands have consistently morphed and permutated according to the dynamic interplay of particular historical, cultural, social, and political conditions. Surveying the efflorescence of brass band performance and schola…
Music, Sound, Politics
This article reviews literature that followed from a political turn, starting in the 1980s, when new epistemological and disciplinary norms were established for articulating music and sound with politics. In an age of impotence, when neoliberal expansion led to pervasive political exhaustion, music and sound took on added potency as political forces in and of themselves. This wager rests on the presumption of music's capacity for politicization (…
Textures of Black sound and affect
In a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral, the characteristic shift from mourning to joy is propelled by brass band musicians weaving melodies and rhythms together. This article is about how these thickly layered textures of sound elicit shared sentiments of lament and of joy. More than an accumulation of individual layers, the textures and emotions compose an atmosphere, in both the physical and metaphorical sense, of mutual aid. The relative op…
Keywords in Sound
New Orleans Brass Bands
New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City. 2014. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40212. Recorded by Mark Bingham and Wesley Fontenot. Annotated by Michael G. White. Produced by Michael G. White and Daniel E. Sheehy. 36-page booklet with notes in English. Colour and b/w photographs, bibliography, discography. CD, 15 tracks (69:44). Recorded at Piety Street Studio, New Orleans. - Volume 47
Music Lessons as Life Lessons in New Orleans Marching Bands
In New Orleans, musicians in school marching bands are more popular than athletes, and spectators marvel at the choreography and musicianship on display in Mardi Gras parades and sporting events. Lessons imparted in the bandroom not only prepare a select few with the tools to pursue a career in music, they offer all students "culturally sustaining pedagogies" unavailable in core curriculum classes. But in prioritizing high-stakes testing, raciali…
Privatization, Marketization, and Neoliberalism—The Political Dynamics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina was a “disaster” both “natural” and “social.” The storm destroyed a major American city that, like most American cities, was already the site of great inequality and vulnerability. It also dramatically put to the test both the logistical capabilities and the political responsibilities of national, state, and local governmental institutions.The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans…
Engaging New Orleans
Keywords: association business, Annual Meeting, 2010 Annual Conference
Under the Bridge
Research Article| January 01 2010 "Under the Bridge": An Orientation to Soundscapes in New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny Matt Sakakeeny Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2010) 54 (1): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.1.0001 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Resounding Silence in the Streets of a Musical City
New Orleans is a musical city where sound is inextricable from the experience of place. Sound has played a defining role in distinctive cultural practices such as jazz funerals and parades called “second lines,” in which African Americans have made claims on the contested city streets for over a century. How will New Orleans re-sound after extraordinary forces claimed those same streets
Under the Bridge
Research Article| January 01 2010 "Under the Bridge": An Orientation to Soundscapes in New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny Matt Sakakeeny Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2010) 54 (1): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.1.0001 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Resounding Silence in the Streets of a Musical City
New Orleans is a musical city where sound is inextricable from the experience of place. Sound has played a defining role in distinctive cultural practices such as jazz funerals and parades called “second lines,” in which African Americans have made claims on the contested city streets for over a century. How will New Orleans re-sound after extraordinary forces claimed those same streets
Music, Sound, Politics
This article reviews literature that followed from a political turn, starting in the 1980s, when new epistemological and disciplinary norms were established for articulating music and sound with politics. In an age of impotence, when neoliberal expansion led to pervasive political exhaustion, music and sound took on added potency as political forces in and of themselves. This wager rests on the presumption of music's capacity for politicization (…
Textures of Black sound and affect
In a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral, the characteristic shift from mourning to joy is propelled by brass band musicians weaving melodies and rhythms together. This article is about how these thickly layered textures of sound elicit shared sentiments of lament and of joy. More than an accumulation of individual layers, the textures and emotions compose an atmosphere, in both the physical and metaphorical sense, of mutual aid. The relative op…
Privatization, Marketization, and Neoliberalism—The Political Dynamics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina was a “disaster” both “natural” and “social.” The storm destroyed a major American city that, like most American cities, was already the site of great inequality and vulnerability. It also dramatically put to the test both the logistical capabilities and the political responsibilities of national, state, and local governmental institutions.The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans…
Resounding Silence in the Streets of a Musical City
New Orleans is a musical city where sound is inextricable from the experience of place. Sound has played a defining role in distinctive cultural practices such as jazz funerals and parades called “second lines,” in which African Americans have made claims on the contested city streets for over a century. How will New Orleans re-sound after extraordinary forces claimed those same streets
Engaging New Orleans
Keywords: association business, Annual Meeting, 2010 Annual Conference
Under the Bridge
Research Article| January 01 2010 "Under the Bridge": An Orientation to Soundscapes in New Orleans Matt Sakakeeny Matt Sakakeeny Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2010) 54 (1): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.1.0001 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Too…
Privatization, Marketization, and Neoliberalism—The Political Dynamics of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina was a “disaster” both “natural” and “social.” The storm destroyed a major American city that, like most American cities, was already the site of great inequality and vulnerability. It also dramatically put to the test both the logistical capabilities and the political responsibilities of national, state, and local governmental institutions.The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans…
Keywords in Sound
New Orleans Brass Bands
New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City. 2014. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40212. Recorded by Mark Bingham and Wesley Fontenot. Annotated by Michael G. White. Produced by Michael G. White and Daniel E. Sheehy. 36-page booklet with notes in English. Colour and b/w photographs, bibliography, discography. CD, 15 tracks (69:44). Recorded at Piety Street Studio, New Orleans. - Volume 47
Music Lessons as Life Lessons in New Orleans Marching Bands
In New Orleans, musicians in school marching bands are more popular than athletes, and spectators marvel at the choreography and musicianship on display in Mardi Gras parades and sporting events. Lessons imparted in the bandroom not only prepare a select few with the tools to pursue a career in music, they offer all students "culturally sustaining pedagogies" unavailable in core curriculum classes. But in prioritizing high-stakes testing, raciali…
Music, Sound, Politics
This article reviews literature that followed from a political turn, starting in the 1980s, when new epistemological and disciplinary norms were established for articulating music and sound with politics. In an age of impotence, when neoliberal expansion led to pervasive political exhaustion, music and sound took on added potency as political forces in and of themselves. This wager rests on the presumption of music's capacity for politicization (…
Textures of Black sound and affect
In a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral, the characteristic shift from mourning to joy is propelled by brass band musicians weaving melodies and rhythms together. This article is about how these thickly layered textures of sound elicit shared sentiments of lament and of joy. More than an accumulation of individual layers, the textures and emotions compose an atmosphere, in both the physical and metaphorical sense, of mutual aid. The relative op…
Conceptualizing Brass Music as Popular Music
As a relatively stable and predictable cultural formation, the brass band is an idiomatic ensemble of wind and percussion instruments originally organized by militaries, governments, churches, and other formal institutions. Yet brass bands have consistently morphed and permutated according to the dynamic interplay of particular historical, cultural, social, and political conditions. Surveying the efflorescence of brass band performance and schola…
Music History and Culture (7 works) · History (6 works) · Acoustics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Geography (3 works)