Isaac Silber                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       silberis1@gmail.com
                                                                                                                                                                  
Isaac Silber received a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in the Spring of 2026, where his research focused on the entanglement between underground forms of music-making, black feminist and queer of color critique, and the dissolution of whiteness and/as individual subjectivity. His dissertation, “Sounds of Love Entangled: On Music-Making Between Philadelphia and New York City,” explores the entanglements between soul and dance music in the interplay between Philadelphia and New York City from the 1960s-present, and received the Franco Coli Dissertation Award. He has presented work in the form of papers, workshops and performance/lectures at the Center for Performance Research, NYU’s PRAXIS, Inc., the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s Annual Pop Conference, and the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Conference.     


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