Stephen Richard Amico
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
- Research Group for East Slavic Languages, Societies and Cultures
- Foundational Questions in Gender and Sexuality Research
- Musicology Research Group
Short info
Research
I am very interested in postdisciplinary approaches, related to materiality, decoloniality, and technology
Teaching
@ UiB
Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Popular Music Studies
Introduction to Musicology
Musikk, Kultur, og Samfunn
Russian Music: From Concert Hall to Dance Club
@ Other Univerities (City University of New York, University of Pennsylvania, University of Amsterdam, University of Vienna)
Sounding Colonial/Decolonial: Gender, Music, Queerness
Introduction to Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Music, Gender, and Sexuality in Russian and Soviet History and Culture
Music, Media, and Space
Sound Cultures
Research in Context
Theoretical Approaches to Popular Music
Russian and Soviet Music and Culture
Introduction to Music
Introduction to World Music
Publications
Academic lecture
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2024). "Queering" Ukraine (?). (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2024). Performance/Potentials/Possibilities. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2024). Silence(ing) = Death: On Ethnomusicology, Queer Studies, and the Monologic Humanities. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2023). Ethnomusicology, Queer Studies, and the Unsustainable Humanities. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2019). All the Possible Bodies: Fashion, Phenomenology, and the Anti-Narrative of the “Virtual” Runway. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2018). The Female Voice in Russian Popular Music. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2018). "Gender, Sex, Polyphonic Embodiment". (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2018). "Music Video, Public Debate, Affective Demolition". (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2018). "Voice, Body, Culture". (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2017). “Girls” Behaving “Badly”: Women, Violence, and Vigilantes in Russian Pop Videos. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2017). How to Do Things with Theory: Queerness, Cultural Authority, and Post-Soviet Popular Music. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2017). “People’s Artist” on the Global Stage: Russian Popular Music and Polyphonic Embodiment Stephen Amico . (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2015). Bodies, Genders, and Postfeminist/Posthumanist Voices. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2015). Bodies, Genders, and Voices. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2015). An Analog Approach to Digital Listening: Presence, Absence, and Russian Pop. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2015). The Russian Madonna?: Valeriia, Polyphonic Bodies, and Russian Expressive Culture. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2015). Queerness and/as Capitalism; or, the Comforts of Gender. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2015). Eurovision’s Potemkin Villages: Polina Gagarina and the Past as Post-. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2014). Sodomy? Pederasty? Bestiality?! (Mis-) Reading Russian Media Texts as Gay Propaganda. (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2024). Sexed Bodies/(Im)Possible Bodies/Polyphonic Bodies. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2018). How to Do Things with Theory: Cultural “Transcription,” “Queerness,” and Ukrainian Pop. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2006). "Su Casa es Mi Casa": Latin House, Sexuality, Place. (external link)
Academic monograph
Academic article
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2020). “We Are All Musicologists Now”; or, the End of Ethnomusicology. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen (2016). Digital voices, other rooms: Pussy Riot’s recalcitrant (in)corporeality. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2014). “The Most Martian of Martianesses": Zhanna Aguzarova, (Post-) Soviet Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Musico-Linguistic Creation of the Outside. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2009). Visible Difference, Audible Difference: Female Singers and Gay Male Fans in Russian Popular Music. (external link)
- Amico, Stephen Richard (2001). "I Want Muscles": House Music, Homosexuality and Masculine Signification.” . (external link)
Book review
Encyclopedia article
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Most of my publications are available via open access. If you can't find something you need, feel free to contact me.