Book ID: CBB001421306

Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (2012)

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Keeling, Kara (Editor)
Kun, Josh (Editor)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: viii + 426 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

The field of American studies has a long tradition of scholarship and research into the social and cultural worlds of sound. The essays in this volume highlight the key role of sound in the formation of central themes and areas of inquiry within contemporary American studies. The editors have adopted an interdisciplinary approach to their study of sound, reflecting on its cultural, political, technological, economic, socio-historical, spatial, temporal, affective, and formal contexts. The selected essays analyze sound and explore inter-American soundscapes within several areas, including * media technologies and consumption * race, sex, and gender * citizenship, belonging, and community * nationalism and citizenship * time and historical method * the public sphere and social change How have sound technologies and sonic media practices informed American identities? What role have hearing and listening played in formations of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, community, and class? What are the political economies of sound? The contributors to Sound Clash address these questions and more as they think through sound as a critical space, listening as a critical and cultural act, and sonic media as key technological sites of investigation.

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Reviewed By

Review Schloss, Joseph (2014) Review of "Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies". Technology and Culture (pp. 736-737). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Naeem, Asma (2012) Splitting Sight and Sound: Thomas Dewing's a Reading, Gilded Age Women, and the Phonograph. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 17). unapi

Chapter Scott, D. Travers (2012) Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 43). unapi

Chapter Rodgers, Tara (2012) “What, for Me, Constitutes Life in a Sound?”: Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Blake, Art M. (2012) Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB Radio. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 87). unapi

Chapter Teague, Jessica E. (2012) The Recording Studio on Stage: Liveness in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 111). unapi

Chapter Hagood, Mack (2012) Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 129). unapi

Chapter Tahmahkera, Dustin (2012) “An Indian in a White Man's Camp”: Johnny Cash's Indian Country Music. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 147). unapi

Chapter Black, Alex W. (2012) Abolitionism's Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American Performance. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 175). unapi

Chapter Eidsheim, Nina Sun (2012) Marian Anderson and “Sonic Blackness” in American Opera. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 197). unapi

Chapter Wald, Gayle (2012) Soul Vibrations: Black Music and Black Freedom in Sound and Space. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 229). unapi

Chapter Lott, Eric (2012) Back Door Man: Howlin Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 253). unapi

Chapter Kheshti, Roshanak (2012) Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 267). unapi

Chapter Radovac, Lilian (2012) The “War on Noise”: Sound and Space in La Guardia's New York. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 289). unapi

Chapter Sewald, Ronda L. (2012) Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public Soundscape. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 317). unapi

Chapter Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer (2012) Reproducing U.S. Citizenship in Blackboard Jungle: Race, Cold War Liberalism, and the Tape Recorder. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 337). unapi

Chapter Casillas, Dolores Inés (2012) Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols La Migra. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 363). unapi

Chapter Shank, Barry (2012) The Political Agency of Musical Beauty. In: Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies (p. 387). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Chapman, Anne
Lynn B. Spigel
Hume, Natalie
Luke Stadel
Watters, Audrey
Kurlansky, Mark
Journals
The Senses and Society
Past and Present
Journal of American Culture
Publishers
Oxford University Press
MIT Press
Northwestern University
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of California Press
Springer
Concepts
Communication technology
Methods of communication; media
Technology and society
Technology and culture
Telegraphs; telephones
Science and race
People
Edison, Thomas Alva
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Places
United States
Germany
Puerto Rico
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Japan
China
Institutions
University of Chicago
American Sociological Association
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