Conjuring Abolition Phonography in A Record Album Interpretation

Derek Baron is a PhD candidate in Historical Musicology at New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Situated at the intersection of sound studies, critical race studies, and the history of science, their primary research project addresses the racial and biopolitical logics shaping the 19th- and 20th-century sciences of voice and speech in the United States. They are a writer and a musician, and in 2016 they started Reading Group, a record label focusing on new and archival releases of musical and nonmusical audio. db3650@nyu.edu