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Sounding Out! Podcast Mini-Series (#17): Listening to The Tuned City of...
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The Noisiest City on Earth? or, What Can the 2012 Manhattan Noise Complaint...
“It’s a city, not a cemetery. You can’t tell everybody to go around wearing earplugs.” Ex-New York City Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern, quoted in “Many Pleas for Quiet, but City Still Thunders” 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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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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À qui la rue?: On Mégaphone and Montreal’s Noisy Public Sphere
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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Sound Off!// Comment Klatsch #15: Urban Sounds
klatsch \KLAHCH\ , noun: A casual gathering of people, esp. for refreshments and informal conversation [German Klatsch, from klatschen, to gossip, make a sharp noise, of imitative origin.]...
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Unsettled Listening: Integrating Film and Place
Welcome to the third and final installment of Sculpting the Film Soundtrack, our series about sound in contemporary films. We’ve been focusing on how filmmakers are blurring the boundaries between...
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Toward A Civically Engaged Sound Studies, or ReSounding Binghamton
I want to enable my students to mobilize sound studies not just as an analytic filter to help them understand the world, but as a method enabling more meaningful engagement with it. This post, an...
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“You’re. . .#noangel. . . either”: Uneasy Politics and Dissonant Sonics in...
This September, Sounding Out! challenged a #flawless group of scholars and critics to give Beyoncé Knowles-Carter a close listen, re-examining the complex relationship between her audio and visuals...
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SO! Amplifies: Carleton Gholz and the Detroit Sound Conservancy
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! — I founded the Detroit...
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SO! Amplifies: Shizu Saldamando’s OUROBOROS
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! — Shizu Saldamando’s solo...
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Finding My Voice While Listening to John Cage
Editor’s Note: Today I bring you installment #4 of Sounding Out!‘s blog forum on gender and voice! Last week Regina Bradley put the soundtrack of Scandal in conversation with race and gender. The week...
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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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Sonic Connections: Listening for Indigenous Landscapes in Kent Mackenzie’s...
In April 2015, ten American Indian extras walked off the set of Adam Sandler’s new film The Ridiculous Six, a spoof on the classic Magnificent Seven (1960), in protest over the gross misrepresentation...
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Straight Outta Compton . . .Via New York
Sounding Race in Rap Songs explores the production of musical identity in hip hop’s first two decades as a commercial genre. Although I don’t ignore lyrics or visual imagery, my main purpose is to...
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Slow, Loud, and Bangin’: Paul Wall talks “slab god” sonics
slab god, Paul Wall’s latest project, surpasses many recent rap releases via its stripped down sound, minimalistic in a non-trendy, monastic sort of way. Sonically, slab god is solemn, thoughtful and...
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City Noises, City Sounds
Last week, I spent a few days in New York City to celebrate Thanksgiving. I stayed in the Bronx, at an apartment a few feet away from the Bedford Park Boulevard stop and a subway train yard. Now, even...
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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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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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When I Think of Home*
*title comes from a line in the song “Home” from the film The Wiz This month I want to share with Sounding Out’s readers part of an essay that is very dear to me: an essay on home and African American...
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What Are You Listening to When youarelistening.to/losangeles ?
Earlier last week I came across this post by GOOD regarding a new site called youarelisteningtolosangeles.com. Eric Eberhardt’s (http://twitter.com/url2la) web creation uses an LAPD radio feed and...
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“I didn’t say look; I said listen”: The People’s Microphone, #OWS, and Beyond
Papier-mâché Bullhorn Spotted at Zuccotti Park, Photo by Author On a Tuesday right after Valentine’s Day in 2011 thousands of people marched on the Wisconsin capitol and good-naturedly, but firmly,...
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Sounding the Motor City: Chrysler and Detroit’s Legacy
Screen shot from "Selected of God Choir" Chrysler commercial. Selected of God are better known for their appearance in Eminem's Chrysler commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. Last February,...
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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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Sound and Curation; or, Cruisin’ through the galleries, posing as an...
“L.A. Reimagined” by Dalila Paola Mendez (c), Mendez’ work will be featured in re:present LA, opening 5/3/12 But to love this turf is love hard and unrequited. … To love L.A. is to love more than a...
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Sound + Vision: Andy’s Mick
Andy Warhol – Mick Jagger 1975, Image by Flickr User Oddsock Hello Internet! It’s great to be here in cyberspace! Are you ready to rock? Today’s dispatch from our Spring Series, Live from the SHC,...
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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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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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Park Sounds: A Kansas City Soundwalk for Fall
Fall refuses to stay put in Kansas City. The past month Kansas City temperatures have skyrocketed to 70 comfortable degrees fahrenheit and plummeted to 20 chilly degrees. I decided to partake of a...
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“I’m on my New York s**t”: Jean Grae’s Sonic Claims on the City
Hellooooooo, Cyberspace! Are you ready to rock??? Welcome to our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on...
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Radical Listening and the People’s Microphony: A Conversation with Elana Mann
Members and collaborators of ARLA (Paula Cronan, Juliana Snapper, and Elana Mann) participating in a General Assembly at Occupy LA City Hall, November 11, 2011 Listen to everything all the time and...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #15: Listening to The Tuned City of Brussels, The First...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Mini-Series (#16): Listening to The Tuned City of...
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Surf, Sun, and Smog: Audio-Visual Imagery + Performance in Mexico City’s...
Riding the Surf Wave in a City Without a Seashore On April 24, 2005, at Zócalo square in downtown Mexico City, the Surf y Arena music festival gathered around 100,000 people and nine bands, ranging...
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SO! Amplifies: Allison Smartt, Sound Designer of MOM BABY GOD and Mixed-Race...
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! — Currently on the...
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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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SO! READS: Melissa Mora Hidalgo’s Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands
These days it’s a challenge to be reviewing a book that has anything to do with the English singer-writer Morrissey, given his support for Brexit and anti-immigrant nationalist political parties in the...
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Listening to the Beautiful Game: The Sounds of the 2018 World Cup
I heard them before I saw them. Walking to my apartment in Moscow’s Tverskoy District, I noticed a pulsating mass of sound in the distance. Turning the corner, I found a huge swath of light blue and...
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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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Flâneuse>La caminanta
Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice. Although “soundwalking” now describes a...
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Soundwalking on the Edges: Sound, Safety and Privilege in São Paulo, Brazil
Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice. Although “soundwalking” now describes a...
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“Vous Ecoutez La Voix du Peuple”: The Kreyol Language Pirate Radio Stations...
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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Teaching Soundwalks in a Course on Gentrification, Black Music, and Corporate...
On May 5, 2018, the C-ville Weekly, a newspaper based out of Charlottesville, Virginia, published an article titled “Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll: new apartment complex promises at least one of...
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Tuning In to the Desi Valley: Getting to Know a Community via Radio
Sound has a peculiar relationship to mindfulness; zoning in and out, active and passive forms of listening while we situate our listening practices alongside other daily activities. Especially when it...
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Echoes in Transit: Loudly Waiting at the Paso del Norte Border Region
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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