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MUSC 304 – Electronic Music, Queer Futurism, and the Post-Industrial Landscape Date: [Current Date]

Released posthumously on September 27, 2024, as part of the self-titled album SOPHIE , “New York’s Burning Down (feat. DOSS & THOTO)” exists as a spectral monument to both personal and collective tragedy. Unlike the hyperkinetic bubblegum bass of Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides , this track operates in a liminal space between elegy and archival newsreel. This paper argues that “New York’s Burning Down” functions not as a literal historical retelling, but as a —transmuting the historical New York City blackout of 1977 and the crack epidemic era into a digital ghost story. SOPHIE - New York-s Burning Down -Ft. DOSS- Tho...

Spectral Embers: Deconstructing Industrial Grief in SOPHIE’s “New York’s Burning Down” MUSC 304 – Electronic Music, Queer Futurism, and