Stephen Amico is Assistant Professor in both the Media Studies and Music Departments at the University of Amsterdam.  Originally from New York City, he has previously been a faculty member and communications fellow within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, and was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, in the departments of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures.  

He received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the CUNY Graduate Center (2007), where he was awarded the Paul Monette-Roger Horwitz Prize for best dissertation by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS).  His work has focused on and continues to explore the complex intersections of culturally and historically situated sexual identities and popular musics within a highly complex and kinetic global context.   His most current research has been devoted to the examination of such dynamics in the context of post-Soviet Russian space.   Interdisciplinary in nature, these examinations have engaged the methodologies of ethnomusicology, cultural musicology, and music theory, as well as the theoretical paradigms from the areas of gender/sexuality, popular music, media, phenomenology, and affect.

His monograph, Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!  Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality is forthcoming from University of Illinois Press in June of 2014.

Representative Publications

Forthcoming.  "'The Most Martian of Martianesses':  Zhanna Aguzarova, (post-) Soviet Rock 'n' Roll, and the Musico-Linguistic Creation of the Outside."  Popular Music.

Forthcoming.  "Capitalist Theory, or On the Cultural (Il-)logic of a Queer Post-Soviet Pop."  The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness (ed. Fred Maus and Sheila Whiteley).

2009.  "Visible Difference, Audible Difference:  Female Singers and Gay Male Fans in Russian Popular Music."  Popular Music and Society 32(3):  351-370 (Winner of R. Serge Denisoff Award, Best Article, Volume 32).

2006.  "Su Casa es Mi Casa:  Latin House, Sexuality, Place."  Queering the Popular Pitch (ed. Sheila Whitely and Jennifer Rycenga).  New York:  Rougledge.  131-151.

2001.  "'I Want Musicles':  House Music, Homosexuality, and Masculine Signification."  Popular Music 20(3):  359-378.  (Reprinted in Electronica, Dance, and Club Music, ed. Mark Butler.  2012).

Articles in Process

"Temporal Anxiety as Socio-Somatic Anxiety in Chaikovskii's Pikovaia Dama and PJ Harvey's Rid of Me."

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