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...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleSounding 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...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleSound 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....
View ArticleSound 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,...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleBlog-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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleSound 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,...
View ArticleSound 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...
View ArticleSO! 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...
View ArticleRadio 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...
View ArticleSO! 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,...
View ArticleChicana 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,...
View ArticleLook 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...
View ArticleSO! 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...
View ArticleMy 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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