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Sonic Color Line (Postmillennial Pop) Jennifer Stoever The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what…
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Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Mack Hagood For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre’s “Hear What You Want”…
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Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series (1)) Brandon LaBelle A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change. In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary…
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Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World) Dominic Pettman Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species,…
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The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Refiguring American Music) Nina Sun Eidsheim In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the…
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Theorizing Sound Writing (Music / Culture) Deborah Kapchan The study of listening–aurality–and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an…