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Radio’s “Oblong Blur”: Notes on the Corwinesque
Miguel Covarrubias, untitled iIlustration to “Radio I: A $140,000,000 Art,” Fortune (May, 1938). Editor’s Note: Today, Neil Verma kicks off our summer series “Tune In to the Past,” which explores the...
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Something’s Got a Hold on Me: ‘Lingering Whispers’ of the Atlantic Slave...
Interior of Men’s Slave Cells – Cape Coast Castle – Ghana, Image by Flickr User Adam Jones, PhD I am standing in the mouth of the female dungeon. I hesitate to breathe for fear the hole will swallow...
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Living with Noise
Image by Flickr User Bill Selak [O]ne of the chief values of living with music lies in its power to give us an orientation to time.– Ralph Ellison, “Living with Music” (1955) Early this past fall, my...
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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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Sounding Out! Podcast #26: Wobbling the Speakerspace
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DIY Histories: Podcasting the Past
This is article 3.0 in Sounding Out!‘s April Forum on “Sound and Technology.” Every Monday this month, you’ll be hearing new insights on this age-old pairing from the likes of Sounding Out! veteranos...
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Catastrophic Listening
Welcome back to Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out‘s series on how the unheard world affects us, which started out with my post on the hearing ranges of animals, and now continues with this exciting...
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Sounds of Science: The Mystique of Sonification
Welcome to the final installment of Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out‘s series on what we don’t hear and how this unheard world affects us. The series started out with my post on hearing, large and...
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Future Memory: Womb Sound As Shared Experience Crossing Time and Space
This Month will feature a two-part post by SO! regular writer Maile Colbert. Look for Part Two on Monday, January 19th. — I was a child obsessed with time travel. Beyond favorites such as A Wrinkle in...
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Lazarus.FM: Can the Endangered Sounds of Detroit Be Saved?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post, a personal essay concerning an endangered archive of radio recordings in Detroit by University of Michigan Professor Derek Vaillant, has been temporarily embargoed due to a...
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SO! Amplifies: Cities and Memory
SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome! — Inspired by how sound...
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Straight Leanin’: Sounding Black Life at the Intersection of Hip-hop and Big...
Marginalized bodies produce marginalized sounds to communicate things that escape language. The queer body is the site of sounds that engage pleasure, repression, rage, isolation, always somehow...
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Desiring Medieval Sound
Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in The Sound Studies Reader, “comes to the...
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The Magical Post-Horn: A Trip to the BBC Archive Centre in Perivale
Suddenly we heard a Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! We looked round, and now found the reason why the postilion had not been able to sound his horn: his tunes were frozen up in the horn, and came out now...
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Spaces of Sounds: The Peoples of the African Diaspora and Protest in the...
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. – Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo Sanford. Baltimore....
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“Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature
For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here. For the second post by Susana Sepulveda click here. The...
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El Caracol: A Stroll through Space and Time in Mexico City
A sound art multimedia piece by Anthony William Rasmussen Funded by the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant Map graphics by Julie K. Wesp Additional Footage by Oswaldo Mejía The megalopolis of Mexico...
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“Music More Ancient than Words”: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories on Africana Aurality
Inspired by the recent Black Perspectives “W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150” Online Forum, SO!’s “W.E.B. Du Bois at 150” amplifies the commemoration of the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Du Bois’s birth in...
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My Time in the Bush of Drones: or, 24 Hours at Basilica Hudson
Ed. Note: We wanted to run this piece in advance of the Basilica Hudson’s SoundScape event taking place this Friday, September 14 – Sunday, September 16, 2018. Our Amplifying Du Bois at 150 forum will...
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“How Many Latinos are in this Motherfucking House?”: DJ Irene, Sonic...
How Many Latinos are in this Motherfucking House? –DJ Irene At the Arena Nightclub in Hollywood, California, the sounds of DJ Irene could be heard on any given Friday in the 1990s. Arena, a 4000-foot...
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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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Mingus and the Chill of Death
In his autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, jazz musician Charles Mingus recounts his hatred of being ignored during his bass solos. When it was finally his turn to enter the foreground, suddenly...
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TiK ToK: Post-Crash Party Pop, Compulsory Presentism and the 2008 Financial...
As pundits increasingly speculate about the likelihood and character of another recession, I’m thinking about the one from which we’re still recovering. Specifically, I’m thinking about a certain...
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