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Sound at EMP Pop Con 2012
As our Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman mentioned in her Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference Round-Up post from this past Monday, this weekend will be action packed for...
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“Once the word ‘sound’ was in the title, it opened up a kind of door”: A...
“Eric Weisbard” by Flickr user Joe Mabel undre Creative Commons 2.0 License Last March, I attended the first Experience Music Project (EMP) Pop Conference in New York City. (See my pre-conference...
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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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Sound at AMS/SEM/SMT 2012
This week brings us #musicon12, the megaconference of the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and the Society for Music Theory (SMT). This will be the third...
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Sound at ASA 2012
This year, #ASA2012 is being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Puerto Rico Convention Center from November 15-18. San Juan provides a historic opportunity for the interdisciplinary scholars working...
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Sound at MLA 2013
It is that time of year again: the winter holidays, the new year, and, yes, the Modern Language Association Annual Convention–which finally returns to the East Coast after two years on the West Coast....
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Sound at SCMS 2013
For the 2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in Chicago, Sounding Out! enlisted one of our favorite guest writers, radio scholar Neil Verma (whom you’ll remember from our excellent Tune...
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Functional Sound (Studies): The First European Sound Studies Association Meeting
On October 4-6, 2013 ESSA – The European Sound Studies Association – will have its first conference in Berlin. This initiative is just the latest sign that an institutionalization is taking place...
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Sound at SEM 2013
November 14th through 17th mark the 58th anniversary of the Society of Ethnomusicology’s (SEM) annual meeting, this year at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown in Indianapolis, Indiana. SEM has some...
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Sound at ASA 2013
Although this year’s American Studies Association conference location is not as warm and sunny as last year’s (can we have all November conferences in warm, sunny places, please?), Washington DC has a...
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Ill Communication: Hip Hop Studies & Sound Studies @ Show And Prove
“The engaged voice must never be fixed and absolute but always changing, always evolving in dialogue with a world beyond itself” –bell hooks, quoted by d. Sabela Grimes at Show and Prove, 9.18.10 This...
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Sound at ASA 2010
A Cast of the Statue of Liberty’s Ear Normally you would see a brand-new post from Sounding Out! on a Monday like this one, but this week I am traveling to the American Studies Association Conference...
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Sound at MLA 2011
MLA 2011 offers almost an embarrassment of riches for the sound studies scholar in the new year, testifying to the remarkable recent growth of the field. I have scoured PMLA in order to bring you...
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Head Games?: The Strategic View of Liveness and Performance
When I tell people that I am an economist and a musician, they usually have one of two reactions. Either they tell me that I must be crazy, or conflicted—that the two things can’t possibly go...
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Sound at SCMS 2011
“Sound is always the ingenue at the media party”–Charles Bernstein, “Sounding the Word,” in Harper’s March 2011 The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference is especially exciting for...
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Sound at ASA 2011
This year’s American Studies Association meeting in Baltimore, Maryland (October 19th-23rd) marks a real tipping point for Sound Studies within the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. First...
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Sound at SEM/CORD 2011
Sound Studies has been celebrated, as Kara Keeling and Josh Kun recently pointed out in American Quarterly, as both the result of and inspiration for an increasing number of scholars, who “not only...
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Sounding Out! Occupies the Internet, or Why I Blog
Ticker Tape Parade, New York City Financial District, by Kitty Wallace Welcome to our 100th post! It’s me, Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman, Editor-in-Chief, Guest Posts Editor, and Co-Founder of Sounding...
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Sound at MLA 2012
Unlike MLA 2011 in Los Angeles, which overflowed with audio-themed research delights–see our last year’s round up here –MLA 2012 in Seattle seems, well, a lot less sonic. I have a few theories as to...
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Sound at SCMS 2012
I cannot tell you how utterly bummed I am that the Experience Music Project/IASPM joint POP conference falls on exactly the same weekend as the 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies meeting in...
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Sound at MLA 2014
Happy new year, dear Sounding Out! readers! Early January brings about New Year’s resolutions, specials on bins for holiday ornaments, Three Kings’ Day, and our yearly MLA sound studies panel round-up....
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Sound at IASPM-US 2014
For the second weekend in March, the U.S. chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US) will be holding its annual meeting at the University of North Carolina,...
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Sound at SCMS 2014
With a wide array of departmental affiliations and disciplinary backgrounds represented among its society membership, as well as an active and creative leadership, the annual meeting of the Society for...
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Blog-O-Versary #Flawless 5.0!
Click here to download our free Blog-O-Versary 5.0 Mix! . HAPPY 5th BLOG-O-VERSARY! Parabéns! As I write this, I am sitting on the return flight from Portugal, where I spent an utterly transformational...
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“Sound Studies: A Discipline?”: Sound Signatures Winter School, Amsterdam,...
Has the ever-nascent field of sound studies finally “grown up”? After years of intellectual development and a constantly growing body of work, including quite a few classic texts and books, it has been...
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Sound at ASA 2014
The 2014 American Studies Association meeting will be held in Los Angeles, an appropriate setting for this year’s theme, “Fun and the Fury: Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American...
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Sound at SEM 2014
Hot on the heels of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory’s joint annual meeting in Milwaukee, the Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 59th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh,...
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Sound at SCMS 2015
Each March one brave Sounding Out! author takes on the task of wading through the catalog of the annual conference of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS), to produce a curated guide for...
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SO! Amplifies: Sounding Board Curated by Leonardo Cardoso
— 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! — The first annual...
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Radio Preservation Task Force Conference: Sound History and the Logistics of...
Click to download PDF of Program! Radio Preservation Task Force Conference Information Friday: Library of Congress, Washington, DC 9-5pm Saturday: University of Maryland- College Park, 9-5pm Schedule...
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SO! Amplifies: Indie Preserves
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! — In July 2016, we,...
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Chicana Soundscapes: Introduction
Feminista Music Scholarship understands music production and listening as a collective site of engagement that sometimes produces and sometimes challenges social structures of race, class, gender,...
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Look Away and Listen: The Audiovisual Litany in Philosophy
This is an excerpt from a paper I delivered at the 2017 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. — “Compressed and rarefied air particles of sound waves” from Popular...
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SO! Amplifies: Listening to the City Handbook
To download the Listening to the City Handbook, click here! SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work...
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My Music and My Message is Powerful: It Shouldn’t be Florence Price or “Nothing”
Flashback to the second day of the recent Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference in Melbourne, Australia (6-8 July 2018). In a few hours, I will perform the first movement of the Sonata in E minor...
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The Sound of Feminist Snap, or Why I Interrupted the 2018 SEM Business Meeting
I begin this essay with an apology, addressed to the Society for Ethnomusicology President Gregory Barz: I am sorry that I interrupted your opening remarks at least year’s SEM Business meeting. In the...
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Clapping Back: Responses from Sound Studies to Censorship & Silencing
SO! Amplifies. . . a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series showcasing cultural makers and organizations doing work we really dig — The MS Sound Forum invites papers for a guaranteed session at the...
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