Sound Clash

Listening to American Studies

AvKara Keeling,Josh Kun

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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 roles 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. Supplementary sound clips are available at the American Quarterly website.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:A Special Issue of American Quarterly
Antal sidor:440
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421405711

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Kara Keeling is an associate professor in the School of Cinematic Arts and in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Josh Kun is an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America.

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PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Sound Technologies and SubjectivitiesChapter 1. Splitting Sight and Sound: Thomas Dewing's A Reading, Gilded Age Women, and the PhonographChapter 2. Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927–1962Chapter 3. "What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?": Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated IndividualsChapter 4. Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB RadioChapter 5. The Recording Studio on Stage: Liveness in Ma Rainey's Black BottomChapter 6. Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal SpacePart II: Sounding Race, Ethnicity, and GenderChapter 7. "An Indian in a White Man's Camp": Johnny Cash's Indian Country MusicChapter 8. Abolitionism's Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American PerformanceChapter 9. Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American OperaChapter 10. Soul Vibrations: Black Music and Black Freedom in Sound and SpaceChapter 11. Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim CrowChapter 12. Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture IndustryPart III: Sound, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere Chapter 13. The "War on Noise": Sound and Space in La Guardia's New YorkChapter 14. Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public SoundscapeChapter 15. Reproducing U.S. Citizenship in Blackboard Jungle: Race, Cold War Liberalism, and the Tape RecorderChapter 16. Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols La MigraChapter 17. The Political Agency of Musical BeautyContributorsIndex