What is the relationship between race, technology and sound? How can we access the ways that...
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Ziad Fahmy, "Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2020)
As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and...
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Roger Kennedy, "The Power of Music: Psychoanalytic Explorations" (Phoenix House, 2020)
Today I discussed why music so powerful in eliciting emotions with Roger Kennedy, the author of...
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In Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan...
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Mack Hagood, "Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control" (Duke UP, 2019)
How have we used twentieth- and twenty-first-century sound technologies to carve out sonic space...
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In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke...
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening" (Wesleyan UP, 2018)
“What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?” So...
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We might call movies made before the advent of the talkies in 1927 silent films—but for the...
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Alejandra Bronfman, "Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean" (UNC Press, 2016)
The Caribbean has figuratively and literally been entangled in processes of global integration...
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Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by...
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In Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (Bloomsbury...
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Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance...
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Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)
What does music tell us about society? In Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music (Manchester...
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what...
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In 2018, Nicolle R. Holliday and Daniel Villarreal published the results of a study they...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands...
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The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often...
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