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Sound as Popular Culture: A Research Companion (The MIT Press) Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Holger Schulze Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound. The…
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Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean Alejandra M. Bronfman In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…
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Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing Julian Henriques The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence on music and popular culture. Out on the streets of inner city Kingston, Jamaica, every night, sound systems…
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Journal of Sonic Studies, 15th Issue
The 15th issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies is now online, with no central theme but in a way selected to “discuss the ways in which sound is used and experienced in culture, both present and past.” Contents Editorial:…
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Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art Will Schrimshaw Immersion is the new orthodoxy. Within the production, curation and critique of sound art, as well as within the broader fields of sound studies and auditory culture, the…