Sound Philosophy

By Chadwick Jenkins

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Episodes: 114

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A podcast exploring philosophical and interpretive approaches to the history of popular music.

Episode Date
116-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 5
Oct 08, 2025
115-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapters 3-4
Feb 26, 2025
114-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 2
Jan 20, 2025
113-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4, Chapter 1
Jan 20, 2025
112-J Dilla
Dec 04, 2024
111-Rhyme, Flow, Content: Eminem and Mac Miller
Nov 25, 2024
110-Tool
Nov 12, 2024
109-Math Rock
Nov 04, 2024
108-Funk Counterpoint and James Brown
Oct 18, 2024
107-The Bass and Larry Graham
Oct 16, 2024
106-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 10-12
Sep 09, 2024
105-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 8-9
Sep 09, 2024
104-Minimalism and Popular Music
Aug 28, 2024
103-Minimalism, Temporality, Repetition
Aug 26, 2024
102-Flamenco, Compas, and the Siguiriyas
Aug 26, 2024
101-Twos and Threes: Hemiola, Odd Meters, Tresillo
Aug 22, 2024
100-Thumb Like God--Ragtime Guitarist
Aug 16, 2024
099-Meter and Time
Aug 14, 2024
098-The Backbeat
Aug 13, 2024
097-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 6-7
Jul 22, 2024
096-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 4-5
Jul 22, 2024
095-Cross Domain Application
Jun 12, 2024
094-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapters 2-3
Jun 03, 2024
093-Empathy or Sympathy?
May 16, 2024
092-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter 1
May 15, 2024
091-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 7-9
May 01, 2024
090-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 5-6
Apr 25, 2024
089-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 3-4
Apr 07, 2024
088-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2, Chapters 1-2
Apr 03, 2024
087-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 12-13
Mar 18, 2024
086-Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 10-11
Feb 22, 2024
085- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 8-9
Feb 22, 2024
084- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 7
Jan 23, 2024
083- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 5-6
Jan 12, 2024
082- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 3-4
Jan 05, 2024
081- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapters 1-2
Jan 04, 2024
080-Ambivalence in Neutral Milk Hotel and Nana Grizol
Nov 27, 2023
079--Punk Wordsworth: The Smiths
Nov 19, 2023
078-MF DOOM and the Materiality of Language
Nov 06, 2023
077-Agency and Fate in the Narcocorridos of Chalino
Oct 30, 2023
076-The Rhetoric of Law and the Narcocorrido
Oct 23, 2023
075-The Fictional Real in Edith Piaf
Oct 16, 2023
074- The Elliptical Nature of Subjectivity in Björk
Oct 04, 2023
073-Tom Waits and Melancholy
Sep 27, 2023
072- Randy Newman's Off-Kilter America
Sep 20, 2023
71-Cole Porter and the List Song
Sep 13, 2023
70- Aristotle's Rhetoric and Cole Porter's Wit
Aug 18, 2023
069- Lyrics as Material and Museme
Aug 11, 2023
068- Twelve Open Questions Concerning Lyrics
Aug 11, 2023
067-Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 2
Mar 09, 2023
066- Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, part 1
Mar 09, 2023
065-Video Game Music
Feb 27, 2023
064-BTS, Carl Jung, and the Psyche
Feb 13, 2023
063-Death Grips and Accelerationism
Jan 21, 2023
062--The Early Beatles and the Artistry of Fun
Jan 09, 2023
061-The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taylor Swift's Re-recordings
Dec 05, 2022
060-Spotify, Star Texts, and Taylor Swift
Nov 29, 2022
59-Anti-Capitalist Hip Hop
Nov 24, 2022
58-Hip Hop and the Romance of Capital
Nov 14, 2022
057-Neo-Soul and the Body
Nov 08, 2022
056-Neo-Soul and Temporality
Nov 01, 2022
055- Hardcore Punk and Ronald Reagan
Oct 24, 2022
054-Politics and Hardcore Punk
Oct 18, 2022
053-Reggae Confronts Babylon
Oct 11, 2022
052-Economic and Political Violence in Early Reggae
Oct 04, 2022
051- Gospel Music and Surplus Value
Sep 12, 2022
050-Early Gospel Recordings and the Ecstasy of Suffering
Sep 05, 2022
049--The 1930s Musical Commodity Fetish
Aug 29, 2022
048-Tin Pan Alley and the Depression
Aug 23, 2022
047- The Numbing Sublime of DJ Screw and Cloud Rap
Dec 06, 2021
046--Gangsta Rap and the Hip Hop Sublime
Nov 29, 2021
045--Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger, and Murder
Nov 17, 2021
044-Outlaw Country, Kant, and Low Down Freedom
Nov 10, 2021
043--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.3 Introduction
Nov 10, 2021
042--Bebop and Freedom in Play
Nov 01, 2021
041--Sapere Aude: Bebop and (Kantian) Autonomy
Oct 25, 2021
040--Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.2 Prefaces
Oct 25, 2021
039-Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ep.1 Background
Oct 20, 2021
038--Giving the Idea to Art: Kant, the Genius, and Prog Rock
Oct 19, 2021
037--Progressive Rock and (Kantian) Form
Oct 12, 2021
036--The Transcendental Aesthetic of Space and Time in Hindustani Music
Sep 18, 2021
035--Shortcut to Transcendence: The US Reception of Hindustani Music
Aug 20, 2021
033-Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s and the Problem of the Self
Aug 18, 2021
032- Kant's Syntheses and the Ontologies of Music
Mar 09, 2021
031--Kant's Three Syntheses and the Album
Mar 02, 2021
030- The "First Death" of Hip Hop and "Rapper's Delight"
Feb 08, 2021
029-Bossa Nova and Middle-Class Melancholy
Jan 31, 2021
028-DJ Kool Herc, Deconstruction, and Synecdoche
Jan 20, 2021
027-The Problem with Payola
Jan 19, 2021
026- Feeling Otherwise: Music, Commodity, and Streaming
Nov 24, 2020
025- Digitalization and the Ontology of Music
Nov 18, 2020
024-Graffiti and the Aesthetics of Transgression
Nov 13, 2020
023- On Distance, Nietzsche, and Conscious Rap
Nov 11, 2020
021--The Carter Family and the Death of God
Nov 02, 2020
020 Ralph Peer and the Bristol Sessions
Oct 22, 2020
019 Appalachia, Disaster Songs, and Fiddling Contests--Early Country Music
Oct 20, 2020
018-Crossing Over: Billboard, Nietzsche, and the Supremes
Oct 13, 2020
017-Motown, Black Uplift, and Fordism
Oct 08, 2020
016-Booker T. at the Crossroads: Country Blues
Oct 08, 2020
015-The Emergence of the Blues in the Mainstream
Oct 08, 2020
014 Nietzsche’s Rausch, Aesthetic Form, and Highlife Music
Sep 21, 2020
013 Syncretism and Highlife Music of Ghana
Sep 21, 2020
012 WEB DuBois, Double Consciousness, and Bert Williams’s Jonah Man
Sep 21, 2020
011 An Improvisation on Nietzsche, Adorno, and the Grateful Dead
Sep 10, 2020
010 Ragtime, Reversal, and Syncopation
Sep 07, 2020
009 Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy, Sections 3-25 and the 1960s Dionysian
Sep 07, 2020
008 Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and Repetition in Music
Aug 27, 2020
007 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Sections 1-2
Aug 23, 2020
006 Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy: An Introduction
Aug 22, 2020
005 Sousa, Nationalism, and Masculinity
Aug 19, 2020
004 The 19th-Century Parlor Ballad
Aug 11, 2020
003 Early Blackface Minstrelsy and the Racialized Other
Aug 03, 2020
002 Colonial Music and the Copyright Act of 1790
Jul 19, 2020
001 Popular Music and Mass Art
Jul 16, 2020