Books
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The Archive and the Aural City
The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening, book by Alejandro L. Madrid at Duke University Press “In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving from the archive sounds…
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Literature as Sound Studies
New book at Bloomsbury edited by yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. “Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound. Considering literary works drawn…
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The Gender of Sound
Silver Press keeps expanding its sonic gem catalog. After Quantum Listening and Bodies of Sound, they published The Gender of Sound, by Anne Carson. Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts.…
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Poetics of Listening
New book: Poetcis of Listening by Brandon LaBelle @ Bloomsbury “In Poetics of Listening, renowned sound studies scholar Brandon LaBelle brings critical attention to listening as a practice, one that can wield significant impact onto individual, interpersonal and community wellbeing. From…
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Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear
Bodies of Sound greatly contribute to sound studies with 220 pages in which dozens of feminist voices speak, encounter, resonate, and radically listen. Edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin and to be published November 12th this year by Silver…
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Geosonics
Bloomsbury has released Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes by Joshua Dittrich. How do we listen to the earth? That is the central question posed in Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes. Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies,…