Jessica A Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica A Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Attack and Decay
This essay theorizes about nuclear militarism in the Pacific—specifically, US nuclear militarism in the Marshall Islands—by tracing the critical musicological term resonance, or the deep, full, reverberant vibrational connections that disrupt modern constructs of spatiotemporal presence. Resonance refers to the amplification of a (sound) system through the matching of a frequency with an external system, shifting perceptual magnitude through conn…
Brick by bricolage: Adobe Punk 's decolonial remapping of Los Angeles
This essay offers a case study on the Los Angeles, California-focused “theaterwork.” It is framed by the idea that conversations around sustainability—as a concept that stresses “intergenerational equity” in terms of economic, societal, and environmental community endurance—demand that (1) we reflect on ongoing historical injustices to remediate (e.g., settler colonial) exploitation and environmental abuses and (2) we critically dialogue punk DIY…
Listening to Radioactive Rubble: Vocal Decay, Gender, and Nuclear Ruination in the Marshall Islands
This article explores how Marshallese radiation songs, written during and after the nuclear testing period as nuclear survivors tried to make sense of their sufferings, yield insight into processes of imperial ruination, rupture, and fragmentation by resounding the powerful impress of radioactive decay in Marshallese lives. In assessing the parameters through which radiation becomes sensible, how, and to whom, it becomes all the clearer how the U…
Rock ’n’ Roll (Archipelagic American Music Studies)
This article challenges readers to relisten to rock ’n’ roll, a musical genre that has often been synonymous with postwar American culture and ideology, via the nuclear Pacific; in doing so, it proposes an Archipelagic American music studies that decenters the primacy of “the narrative of continental America (which has been a geographical story central to U.S. historiography and self-conception),” as well as U.S. musical historiography and Americ…
Radiation Songs and Transpacific Resonances of US Imperial Transits
This article listens to Marshallese radiation songs to hear how singers subject to US nuclear colonial practices—including US nuclear testing (1946–1958), extant displacement, and human radiation experimentation—continue to be ignored in official capacities, even after nuclear colonialism officially ended with the Republic of the Marshall Islands’s sovereignty through the Compact of Free Association (1986). US nuclear imperialism is persistent gi…
Waves of Displacement and Waves of Development: Marshallese Songfest competitions and cultural diplomacy in Springdale, Arkansas
This article explores Marshallese cultural diplomacy, particularly songfest competitions known as 'The Battle of the Jepta,' from 2013 to 2016 in Springdale, Arkansas (USA). I focus on the role of these songfest competitions as records of the relationship between the US and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, autonomous from the US since 1986 with the Compact of Free Association. Studying Marshallese cultural outreach that is realised through t…
Marshallese Language and Diaspora
This section on Marshallese language provides a series of interviews of a diverse group of Marshallese community members in Springdale, Arkansas, who share their thoughts on challenges related to language, its transmission, and Marshallese orthography. As these interviews demonstrate, the Marshallese language functions in diaspora in ways that confound Western binaries that pit preservation against change. As Marshallese continue to relocate to t…
Marshallese Cultural Diplomacy in Arkansas
The Republic of the Marshall Islands established a consulate in Springdale, Arkansas, in 2009, where about 10 percent of the Marshallese global population resides. Consul-General Carmen Chong-Gum has advanced her notion of "cultural diplomacy," or outreach efforts to the resident communities through Marshallese cultural productions. In this essay, I detail the role of expressive culture in two recent instances of Marshallese cultural diplomacy in…
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Marshallese Cultural Diplomacy in Arkansas
The Republic of the Marshall Islands established a consulate in Springdale, Arkansas, in 2009, where about 10 percent of the Marshallese global population resides. Consul-General Carmen Chong-Gum has advanced her notion of "cultural diplomacy," or outreach efforts to the resident communities through Marshallese cultural productions. In this essay, I detail the role of expressive culture in two recent instances of Marshallese cultural diplomacy in…
Marshallese Language and Diaspora
This section on Marshallese language provides a series of interviews of a diverse group of Marshallese community members in Springdale, Arkansas, who share their thoughts on challenges related to language, its transmission, and Marshallese orthography. As these interviews demonstrate, the Marshallese language functions in diaspora in ways that confound Western binaries that pit preservation against change. As Marshallese continue to relocate to t…
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Auditory Snapshots From the Edges of Europe
This article presents thirty ‘auditory snapshots’ from a wide variety of geographical locations and contexts in order to elaborate several points. First, we believe that the study of history cannot be separated from the study of sound, whether in the form of ‘soundscapes’ or pieces of music. Second, we find that considerations of edges, into which we fold such things as provinces, peripheries and frontiers, can be greatly enriched by looking at a…
Marshallese Cultural Diplomacy in Arkansas
The Republic of the Marshall Islands established a consulate in Springdale, Arkansas, in 2009, where about 10 percent of the Marshallese global population resides. Consul-General Carmen Chong-Gum has advanced her notion of "cultural diplomacy," or outreach efforts to the resident communities through Marshallese cultural productions. In this essay, I detail the role of expressive culture in two recent instances of Marshallese cultural diplomacy in…
Marshallese Language and Diaspora
This section on Marshallese language provides a series of interviews of a diverse group of Marshallese community members in Springdale, Arkansas, who share their thoughts on challenges related to language, its transmission, and Marshallese orthography. As these interviews demonstrate, the Marshallese language functions in diaspora in ways that confound Western binaries that pit preservation against change. As Marshallese continue to relocate to t…
Waves of Displacement and Waves of Development: Marshallese Songfest competitions and cultural diplomacy in Springdale, Arkansas
This article explores Marshallese cultural diplomacy, particularly songfest competitions known as 'The Battle of the Jepta,' from 2013 to 2016 in Springdale, Arkansas (USA). I focus on the role of these songfest competitions as records of the relationship between the US and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, autonomous from the US since 1986 with the Compact of Free Association. Studying Marshallese cultural outreach that is realised through t…
Radiation Songs and Transpacific Resonances of US Imperial Transits
This article listens to Marshallese radiation songs to hear how singers subject to US nuclear colonial practices—including US nuclear testing (1946–1958), extant displacement, and human radiation experimentation—continue to be ignored in official capacities, even after nuclear colonialism officially ended with the Republic of the Marshall Islands’s sovereignty through the Compact of Free Association (1986). US nuclear imperialism is persistent gi…
Listening to Radioactive Rubble: Vocal Decay, Gender, and Nuclear Ruination in the Marshall Islands
This article explores how Marshallese radiation songs, written during and after the nuclear testing period as nuclear survivors tried to make sense of their sufferings, yield insight into processes of imperial ruination, rupture, and fragmentation by resounding the powerful impress of radioactive decay in Marshallese lives. In assessing the parameters through which radiation becomes sensible, how, and to whom, it becomes all the clearer how the U…
Rock ’n’ Roll (Archipelagic American Music Studies)
This article challenges readers to relisten to rock ’n’ roll, a musical genre that has often been synonymous with postwar American culture and ideology, via the nuclear Pacific; in doing so, it proposes an Archipelagic American music studies that decenters the primacy of “the narrative of continental America (which has been a geographical story central to U.S. historiography and self-conception),” as well as U.S. musical historiography and Americ…
Attack and Decay
This essay theorizes about nuclear militarism in the Pacific—specifically, US nuclear militarism in the Marshall Islands—by tracing the critical musicological term resonance, or the deep, full, reverberant vibrational connections that disrupt modern constructs of spatiotemporal presence. Resonance refers to the amplification of a (sound) system through the matching of a frequency with an external system, shifting perceptual magnitude through conn…
Brick by bricolage: Adobe Punk 's decolonial remapping of Los Angeles
This essay offers a case study on the Los Angeles, California-focused “theaterwork.” It is framed by the idea that conversations around sustainability—as a concept that stresses “intergenerational equity” in terms of economic, societal, and environmental community endurance—demand that (1) we reflect on ongoing historical injustices to remediate (e.g., settler colonial) exploitation and environmental abuses and (2) we critically dialogue punk DIY…
History (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works)