Accounts of human trafficking suggest music's uniquely insidious role for victims forcibly
trafficked into strip club-based sex work, wherein music is ubiquitous. In sociological …

It's twenty minutes before the start of the next performance and the mass migration of fans
between the main stage area and other performance/festival sites is well underway. It's dark …

Recent media reporting has highlighted that incidents of sexual violence frequently occur at
live music events. Sexual violence has significant impacts on the health of those who …

This dissertation centers on the role of musical experience in the production and
maintenance of intimate, interpersonal relationships. Music acquires meaning in its ability to …

Across ages and cultures, music's relationship to sexual allure and its adept capacity for
invoking pleasure, eroticism, and desire are well established. Music's ability to arouse and …

Music has often served as a vehicle for sexual expression. But within a musical context
saturated with many sonic phenomena, music-analytical tools can be limited in their ability to …

The first half of this article makes that case for, and develops, a preliminary conceptual
framework for a 'musicriminology'. A response to recent provocations for a more sensorially …

This article re-examines the use of arguments in favour of free speech when faced with
difficult subjects in music, such as sexual violence against women. We present a new …

'Boom boys','audio thugs', and 'sonic terrorists' are some of the pejorative terms used to
describe those who modify their car stereo systems to produce music at high volume. For …

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in London (2013–2014) to address the reasons
why men dominate the crowds in certain spheres of electronic/dance music. Focusing on a …