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“The Happiest Day of the Year": A Reparative (I Hope) Approach to Record Store Day

nocoates wrote 1 month ago: Editor’s Note: This post, by media scholar Norma Coates, was originally published on May 9, 20 … more →

Tags: Music, Vinyl, Place and space, Rock Canon, Sound Studies, identity, Gender, Fandom/Fan Studies, memoir

Sound at EMP Pop Con 20121 comment

LMS wrote 2 months ago: As our Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman mentioned in her Society for Cinema and Media Studi … more →

Tags: Listening, noise, sound, recording, Place and space, Sound Studies, hip-hop, Race 2, Conferences

my mother's voice, my father's eye, and my other body: the sound of deaf photographs2 comments

c. l. cardinale wrote 3 months ago: Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part Sounding Out! series on deafness, Sound … more →

Tags: Listening, Voice, sound, Archival, Sound Studies, identity, Television, The Body, technology

Sounds Difficult: James Joyce and Modernism's Recorded Legacy1 comment

ddkeane wrote 4 months ago: Today’s post from Damien Keane marks the first in our recurrent series, “Live from the S … more →

Tags: Listening, recording, Archival, Sound Studies, Literature, technology, History, Performance, Live from the SHC

Hearing the Tenor of the Vendler/Dove Conversation: Race, Listening, and the “Noise” of Texts1 comment

hystericalblackness wrote 4 months ago: In the beginning there were no words.  In the beginning was the sound and they all knew what the sou … more →

Tags: Listening, noise, sound, hip-hop, Silence, Literature, Public Debate, African American Studies, american studies

Sound at MLA 20122 comments

j. stoever-ackerman wrote 4 months ago: Unlike MLA 2011 in Los Angeles, which overflowed with audio-themed research delights–see our l … more →

Tags: Voice, Place and space, Sound Studies, Literature, Conferences, Digital Humanities, humanism, jennifer stoever-ackerman, sound studies

Pushing Record: Labors of Love, and the iTunes Playlist1 comment

Aaron Trammell wrote 7 months ago: Borrowed from allwomentalk.com Last month as my sister and I drove to the store, she started to joke … more →

Tags: Archival, Digital Media, Listening, Mixtapes, Nostalgia, Performance, Podcasting, recording, Sound Studies

In Defense of Auto-Tune (via Sounding Out!)

Ryan Gilhooley wrote 8 months ago: I am here today to defend auto-tune. I may be late to the party, but if you watched Lil Wayne’s rece … more →

Tags: Music, auto-tune, Music 2, authenticity, Voice, recording, Kanye West, Aesthetics, Osvaldo Oyola

In Defense of Auto-Tune115 comments

mr. oyola wrote 8 months ago: Lil Wayne, I Am Still Music Tour, Photo by Matthew Eisman I am here today to defend auto-tune. I may … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, authenticities, Music, recording, Synthesizers, technology, Voice, Jamie Foxx, Believe

Pushing Play: What Makes the Portable Cassette Recorder Interesting?2 comments

Gus Stadler wrote 9 months ago: "Change the Speed": image from the "Vintage Kids" archive of flickr user theirhi … more →

Tags: sound, recording, Archival, Sound Studies, The Body, technology, History, tape, Play

Prison Music: Containment, Escape, and the Sound of America2 comments

Jeb Middlebrook wrote 9 months ago: We used our voices, whistles, and blow horns to make contact with those on the inside… Prisone … more →

Tags: Music, noise, Sound Studies, History, american studies, Jimi Hendrix, prisons, prison music, Jacques Attali

Play it Again (and Again), Sam: The Tape Recorder in Film (Part Three on the 1980s)1 comment

j. stoever-ackerman wrote 9 months ago: [If you missed the first two installments, hit "pause" and rewind to June’s piece on Noir, and July' … more →

Tags: Listening, Voice, recording, Archival, Sound Studies, Gender, technology, History, tape

Eye Candy: The Absence of the Female Voice in Sports Talk Radio9 comments

LMS wrote 9 months ago: If masculinity is alive and well [on sports talk radio], femininity exists on talk radio as absence, … more →

Tags: Listening, Voice, Sound Studies, radio, Gender, Fandom/Fan Studies, Liana Silva, Sports Talk Radio, Jim Rome

GLaDOS, the Voice of Postfeminist Control8 comments

Aaron Trammell wrote 10 months ago: Warning, spoilers ahead. Image borrowed from ElderGeek. Much has been written about Portal, it has w … more →

Tags: Digital Humanities, Fandom/Fan Studies, Games/Gaming, Gender, Science Fiction, Sound Studies, The Body, Video Games, Voice

Play it Again (and Again), Sam: The Tape Recorder in Film (Part Two on Walter Murch)5 comments

j. stoever-ackerman wrote 10 months ago: The second installment of my summer series, “Play it Again (and Again), Sam: The Tape Recorder in Fi … more →

Tags: Listening, recording, Archival, Sound Studies, technology, History, tape, cinema/movies, jennifer stoever-ackerman

"Take ‘Em to Chuch": OutKast and the Sounds of the Southern Black Church1 comment

rnbradley wrote 11 months ago: Advertising for Outkast In 2006, I ventured into Hoosier Country. I found myself in the middle of…no … more →

Tags: African American Studies, authenticities, cinema/movies, Diasporic Sound, hip-hop, identity, Music, Place and space, Race 2

"This is Not a Sound": The Treachery of Sound in Comic Books

mr. oyola wrote 11 months ago: In comics theorist Scott McCloud‘s seminal work Understanding Comics (1993), there comes a poi … more →

Tags: sound, Sound Studies, Aesthetics, Literature, Comics (2), Osvaldo Oyola, word balloons, Batman, Scott McCloud

Becoming a Bad Listener: Labyrinthitis, Vertigo, and "Passing"4 comments

Aaron Trammell wrote 11 months ago: For the past three weeks I have been sick with labyrinthitis. It started with a bout of vertigo whil … more →

Tags: acoustics, disability studies, Economics, identity, Listening, Medicine, memoir, noise, Place and space

Into the Woods: A Brief History of Wood Paneling on Synthesizers*2 comments

Tara Rodgers wrote 1 year ago: Various Species for the Prophet 08, Analogics *a companion piece of this research, on electronic sou … more →

Tags: acoustics, Aesthetics, Archival, History, humanism, Music, Nostalgia, Ritual, Sound Studies


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