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Listening to #Occupy in the Classroom
Yes, it’s that time again, readers. You are going to have to stop pretending the “Back to School” aisles haven’t been appearing in stores for the past few weeks. We at SO! are here to ease your...
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Evoking the Object: Physicality in the Digital Age of Music
In our current relationship with technology, we bring our bodies, but our minds rule–Linda Stone, “Conscious Computing” I begin with an epigraph from Linda Stone, who coined the phrase ‘continuous...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #9: Listening to São Paulo, Brazil
Click to view slideshow. This podcast is a complement to the post “Sound Politics in Sao Paulo, Brazil.” In it Leonardo Cardoso explores the city’s soundscape and listens to the late night pancadãos...
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Sound-politics in São Paulo, Brazil
When I got to São Paulo in January, 2012, I had only a slight idea of how my fieldwork would unfold. Even though I had planned to investigate the relationship between everyday sounds and ways of using...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #11: Recapping SoundBox Project #Tweetasound
Click to view slideshow. In September of 2012, the team behind the SoundBox Project hosted an event online called #Tweetasound. Supported by the Sounding Out! blog and with help from many audiophiles...
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Sonic Spirituality: Meditations on Eminem’s “Beautiful” and “My Darling”
Guest writer Marcia Alesan Dawkins’s new book on rapper Eminem, Eminem: The Real Slim Shady is now available. We here at Sounding Out! are thrilled, so for this week’s post we asked Dr. Dawkins to give...
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Wayback Sound Machine: Sound Through Time, Space, and Place
This is the second post in Sounding Out!’s July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2013. World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have on our...
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A Listening Mind: Sound Learning in a Literature Classroom
“Listening is little short of a synonym for learning.” –Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies This is the third post in Sounding Out!’s July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July...
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“We wanted to tell stories about sound”: Opening Ears Through the “Everything...
This is the fourth and final post in Sounding Out!’s July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2013. World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we have...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #21: Jonathan Skinner at the Rutgers University Center...
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Listening to the A. D. White House: Cornell’s Society for the Humanities’...
Today, Society for the Humanities Director Timothy Murray sings us back home with a meditation on the soundscapes of study at the A.D. White House this year, closing out our spring “Live from the SHC“...
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In the Flesh: Embodiment, Listening, and Transcription
The Fleshtones Setlist, 9/11/12 show in Bilbao, Spain, Editor’s Note: July 18th, 2012 has been designated as World Listening Day by the World Listening Project, a nonprofit organization founded in...
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I Can’t Hear You Now, I’m Too Busy Listening: Social Conventions and Isolated...
Editor’s Note: I hate to interrupt our busy readers, but I just wanted to mention that today’s post by Osvaldo Oyola marks our last entry in SO!‘s July Forum on Listening. For the full introduction to...
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Could I Be Chicana Without Carlos Santana?
Carlos Santana by Flickr User Momez This may be a given but I have to ask: Why is the music of Carlos Santana considered “Chicano music?” It’s true; I am a fan. And as a fan I never question why I love...
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Musical Encounters and Acts of Audiencing: Listening Cultures in the American...
Editor’s Note: Sound Studies is often accused of being a presentist enterprise, too fascinated with digital technologies and altogether too wed to the history of sound recording. Sounding Out!‘s last...
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Or Does it Explode?: Sounding Out the U.S. Metropolis in Hansberry’s A Raisin...
Editor’s Note: Cars. Trains. Festivals. Music. Noise. Sound. The concept of the city is inherently aural. Cities are always thought of in opposition to quiet, to stillness. However, representing cities...
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(Sound)Walking Through Smithfield Square in Dublin
Editor’s Note: This month Sounding Out! is thrilled to bring you a collection of posts that will change the way you hear cities. The Sounds of the City series will prompt readers to think through...
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Tomahawk Chopped and Screwed: The Indeterminacy of Listening
I’m happy to introduce the final post in Guest Editor Justin Burton‘s three part series for SO!, “The Wobble Continuum.” I’ll leave Justin to recap the series and reflect on it a little in his article...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition
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Sounding Out! Podcast #37: The Edison Soundwalk
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Caterpillars and Concrete Roses in a Mad City: Kendrick Lamar’s “Mortal Man”...
I’ve been hesitant to write about Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly (TPAB) because there are layers to the shit. Sonic, cultural, and political layers that need time to breathe and...
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The Grain of the Voice or the Contour of the Ear?
One of the most exciting possibilities emerging within sound studies is the emphasis on the listener and his/her role in shaping a sound’s meaning and content. Sounds disconnected from their contexts...
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Gendered Ears
While there is a rich discussion in cultural studies about gendered representation in popular music, there remains very little about gendered listening experiences—or, more accurately—gendered...
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Reading the Politics Of Recorded Sound
Just released this past month, Social Text 102: The Politics of Recorded Sound is the latest special issue to take the temperature of the field of sound studies. Answering the provocative question...
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“Last Recording of a Porn Palace”
In the “Sound and Noise” chapter from Aden Evens’s Sound Ideas, he asserts that “to hear is to hear difference” (1), and while he is referencing the variation inherent to the sine wave of a frequency,...
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Sounds of Home
Last month, I braved hail, snow, and just about every kind of plague-like spring weather to hear Karen Tongson’s talk at Cornell about her soon-to-be-released book, Relocations: Emergent Queer Suburban...
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And you will know us by the sound of vuvuzelas
Despite some stunning matchups, the news story of the 2010 World Cup has undoubtedly been the vuvuzela. While there have been valiant efforts to the contrary (see Jennifer Doyle’s article in The...
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Summer Soundscapes, East Coast Style
The humid dog days of summer are upon us, and with them their unique soundscape. In central-AC bereft Binghamton,NY, this means the opening of windows from now until the air turns crisp in September,...
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The Noise of SB 1070: or Do I Sound Illegal to You?
There have been many heated debates over Arizona’s newly-implemented legislation SB 1070, a law which targets one of the U.S.’s most vulnerable communities, undocumented workers, and makes them subject...
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The Noise You Make Should Be Your Own
Before I suggested the name VIBE, even before the magazine was being called Volume, it was known as NOISE. I never liked that name. I mean, I knew what they were going for: “Noise” was meant to imply...
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Singing to my Imagined Listener
Three hours a week, I speak to a group of ninety-nine people and explain how to make choices. I talk loudly, to the back of the room, then I lower my voice to engage them more intimately. I pause and...
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Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Afternoon
I am not usually one to listen and tell, but this time I feel the need to publicly confess, Katy Perry-style. A few weeks ago, I heard a symphony orchestra. And I liked it. I might even go so far as to...
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Listening to Interiors, Silo #5
Early in Jonathan Sterne’s (2003) book The Audible Past he writes, “hearing is concerned with interiors, vision is concerned with surfaces” (p. 15). This binary is in many ways gospel in sound studies....
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I Hear You, I See You
(The title of this post comes from an episode from Season Two of NBC’s Parenthood; Zeke, the patriarch, learns in marriage counseling that he must listen to his wife and let her know he is listening.)...
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Taking Me Out of the Ball Game: Advertising’s Acoustic Pitch
This past week the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) went into effect. The law requires broadcasters to use technology that regulates the difference in volume between normal...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #5: Sound and Spirit on the Highway
Click to view slideshow. This podcast examines the prominent role of audio in the daily spiritual practice of Christian truck drivers. Using the lived examples of these drivers as an entry point, this...
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Beat-ification: British Muslim Hip Hop and Ethical Listening Practices
As the beat drops for our latest Live from the SHC post, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities Fellow Jeanette Jouili hits us with some (social) science, sharing her ethnographic research on Muslim Hip...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #52: Listening to the New England Soundscape Project
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How not to listen to Lemonade: music criticism and epistemic violence
With the premier last month of Lemonade, her second visual album, Beyoncé didn’t make the world stop so much as she make it revolve: around her, around her work, around black women. For all of the...
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Listen to the Sound of My Voice
Betrayal I first realized there was a problem with my voice on the first day of tenth grade English class. The teacher, Mrs. C, had a formidable reputation of strictness and high standards. She had us...
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SO! Reads: Roshanak Khesti’s Modernity’s Ear
“I drifted to another place and time,” reminisces drummer and musicologist Mickey Hart in his 2003 book about salvaging indigenous musical traditions, Songcatchers: In Search of the World’s Music. He...
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Feeling Through the Keen and Grind: Team Dresch’s Personal Best
Image of Alice Bag used with her permission (thank you!) “Genres, styles form around places of cohesion, of transport, of passage. Not an instrumental mathematics (though it can be that too), but a...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #59: Soundwalk of the Women’s March, Santa Ana
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(Re)Locating Soundscapes of Schooling: Learning to Listen to Children’s...
Here at Sounding Out! we like to celebrate World Listening Day (July 18) with a blog series that focuses on the importance of listening. This year, we bring your attention to the role of listening when...
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“I Am Thinking Of Your Voice”: Gender, Audio Compression, and a Sonic...
I developed the text I recite in this post as the theoretical framework for an article I’m working on about audio compression. As I was working on the article, I wondered about the role of gender and...
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Sonic Salvation: A Story of How Listening Can Change Over A Lifetime
By the age of six, I could circumscribe my world in song. I was not particularly precocious — my world was just small. Ultimately, it would be fractured by its own rebellious genesis. Two genres of...
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Mukbang Cooks, Chews, and Heals
Welcome to Next Gen sound studies! In the month of November, you will be treated to the future. . . today! In this series, we will share excellent work from undergraduates, along with the pedagogy that...
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Archivism and Activism: Radio Haiti and the Accountability of Educational...
Haitian Radio // Radyo Ayisyen Learning from other scholars’ work on Haitian radio was, and still is, one of the greatest pleasures in the process of writing Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the...
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A Feast of Silence: Listening as Stoic Practice
In honor of International Podcast Day on 30 September, Sounding Out! brings you Pod-Tember (and Pod-Tober too, actually, now that we’re bi-weekly) a series of posts exploring different facets of the...
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What Do We Hear in Depp v. Heard?
As you probably know—whether you want to or not—the jury reached a verdict earlier this summer in the trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. The trial, in the Fairfax County Circuit Court in...
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