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Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors explore the transformative potential of digital sound studies to create rich, multisensory experiences within scholarship, building on the work of digital humanists to evaluate and historicize new technologies and forms of knowledge.
Trade Review"
Digital Sound Studies contributors prompt productive conversations even while probing assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academia. . . . These essays explore the urgency and necessity of incorporating sonic experience into scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *
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Digital Sound Studies offers a fascinating variety of perspectives on digital sound studies ... Works that link digital humanities and sound studies are somewhat rare, and the present volume is a rich addition to a growing body of knowledge. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- M. Anderson * Choice *
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Digital Sound Studies fuses theory and critical thinking with creative sonic practices, a fusion that is both promising and very appealing." -- Vincent Meelberg * Journal of Sonic Studies *
“This text provides a contemporary possibility of classroom and research work that is innovative and communal. The essays in
Digital Sound Studies examine how sound is contained but held in the body, held through the body but heard through institutions and a cacophony of additional casual, aural effects.” -- Kimberly Williams * Journal for the Society of American Music *
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Digital Sound Studies ... is an excellent resource for people interested in non-conventional experiences that defy standard and mainstream methods of learning and teaching within the humanities. It invites critical thought from cultural, social, and artistic frameworks, with a sustained and sustainable focus on the potential of sound and listening.” -- Tracey El Hajj * Digital Humanities Quarterly *
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Digital Sound Studies is a provocation and a resource: timely in its inquiries and generative in its scope. In chapter after chapter, the reader encounters essays written in a register of experimental play, a quality which enacts a genre-bending intellectual style predicated on listening.” -- Joella Bitter * Technology and Culture *
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction / Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien 1
I. Theories and Genealogies
1. Ethnodigital Sonics and the Historical Imagination / Richard Cullen Rath 29
2. Performing Zora: Critical Ethnography, Digital Sound, and Not Forgetting / Myron M. Beasley 47
3. Rhetorical Folkness: Reanimating Walter J. Ong in the Pursuit of Digital Humanity / Jonathan W. Stone 64
II. Digital Communities
4. The Pleasure (Is) Principle:
Sounding Out! and the Digitizing of Community / Aaron Trammell, Jennifer Lynn Stover, and Liana Silva 83
5. Becoming OutKasted: Archiving Contemporary Black Southernness in a Digtal Age / Regina N. Bradley 120
6. Reprogramming Sounds of Learning: Pedagogical Experiments with Critical Making and Community-Based Ethnography / W. F. Umi Hsu 130
III. Disciplinary Translations
7. Word. Spoken. Articulating the Voice for High-Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) / Tanya E. Clement 155
8. "A Foreign Sound to Your Ear": Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation / Michael J. Kramer 178
9. Augmenting Musical Arguments: Interdisciplinary Publishing Platforms and Augmented Notes / Joanna Swafford 215
IV. Points Forward
10. Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment / Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden 231
11. Sound Practices for Digital Humanities / Steph Ceraso 250
Afterword. Demands of Duration: The Futures of Digital Sound Scholarship / Jonathan Sterne, with Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien 267
Contributors 285
Index 291
