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Music Meant to Make You Move: Considering the Aural Kinesthetic
“Dance!” by Flickr user Clearly Ambiguous, under Creative Commons License 2.0 In the two weeks prior to my drafting this piece, the world lost Adam “MCA” Yauch, Robin Gibb, Donna Summer, and Chuck...
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One Nation Under a Groove?: Music, Sonic Borders, and the Politics of Vibration
Welcome to week three of our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in...
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Freedom Back: Sounding Black Feminist History, Courtesy the Artists
Welcome to week four of our February Forum on “Sonic Borders,” a collaboration with the IASPM-US blog in connection with this year’s IASPM-US conference on Liminality and Borderlands, held in Austin,...
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Going Hard: Bassweight, Sonic Warfare, & the “Brostep” Aesthetic
[Editor's Note 01/24/14 10:00 am: this post has been corrected. In response to a critique from DJ Rupture, the author has apologized for an initial misquoting of an article by Julianne Escobedo...
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The (Magic) Upper Room: Sonic Pleasure Politics in Southern Hip Hop
After a rockin’ (and seriously informative) series of podcasts from Leonard J. Paul–a three part “Inside the Game Sound Designer’s Studio”– our summer Sound and Pleasure series keeps giving you the...
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SO! Amplifies: Yvon Bonenfant’s Voice Bubbles App
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! — During a preview of the...
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Resounding Silence and Soundless Surveillance, From TMZ Elevator to Beyoncé...
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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Beyoncé’s New Weave Swing, or How to Snatch Wigs With Hair Choreography
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 and...
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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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LMGM’s “Lost: Choirboy”& El Jefe’s “Muñoz & La Mission: A Sermon. . .” (in...
Come, let us sing of great men. Well, just one man, not men—and masculine gender is not essential for our purposes. Come to think of it, his greatness isn’t nearly as important as his fierceness, his...
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Music to Grieve and Music to Celebrate: A Dirge for Muñoz
Here is part four of the series “Round Circle of Resonance,“from the Berlin-based arts collective La Mission, who performs connections between the theory of José Esteban Muñoz and sound...
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Black Mourning, Black Movement(s): Savion Glover’s Dance for Amiri Baraka
I don’t worry about the look of it so much. Choreography comes later, when I’m putting together a piece. I’m into the sound; for me, when I’m hittin’, layin’ it down, it’s all about the sound. –Savion...
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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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Deaf Latin@ Performance: Listening with the Third Ear
This is the fourth and final post in Sounding Out!’s 4th annual July forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2015. World Listening Day is a time to think about the...
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Straight Leanin’: Sounding Black Life at the Intersection of Hip-hop and Big...
Marginalized bodies produce marginalized sounds to communicate things that escape language. The queer body is the site of sounds that engage pleasure, repression, rage, isolation, always somehow...
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Ritual, Noise, and the Cut-up: The Art of Tara Transitory
Marginalized bodies produce marginalized sounds to communicate things that escape language. The queer body is the site of sounds that engage pleasure, repression, rage, isolation, always somehow...
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Spaces of Sounds: The Peoples of the African Diaspora and Protest in the...
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness. – Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo Sanford. Baltimore....
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Re-orienting Sound Studies’ Aural Fixation: Christine Sun Kim’s “Subjective...
Editors’ note: As an interdisciplinary field, sound studies is unique in its scope—under its purview we find the science of acoustics, cultural representation through the auditory, and, to perhaps...
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Unapologetic Paisa Chingona-ness: Listening to Fans’ Sonic Identities
For the full intro to the series by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. The forum’s inspiring research by scholars/practioners Wanda Alarcón, Yessica Garcia Hernandez, Marlen Rios-Hernandez, Susana...
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“Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature
For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here. For the second post by Susana Sepulveda click here. The...
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