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A Tribe Called Red Remixes Sonic Stereotypes
Welcome back to “The Wobble Continuum,” a three part series here on Sounding Out!. When we last left you, Mike D’Errico had brought us to the intersection of patriarchal cultural norms, music...
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Radio and the Voice of the Aymara People
Welcome back to our continuing series on radio in the Caribbean and Latin America: Radio de Acción. A consideration of the multilingual history of radio from Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti to the Southern...
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Radio Ambulante: A Radio that Listens
Welcome back to the final article in our three-part series, Radio de Acción. Special thanks to you, our readers, and to editors Jennifer Stoever and Neil Verma at Sounding Out! for hosting this...
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Unsettled Listening: Integrating Film and Place
Welcome to the third and final installment of Sculpting the Film Soundtrack, our series about sound in contemporary films. We’ve been focusing on how filmmakers are blurring the boundaries between...
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Sound at ASA 2014
The 2014 American Studies Association meeting will be held in Los Angeles, an appropriate setting for this year’s theme, “Fun and the Fury: Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American...
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The “Tribal Drum” of Radio: Gathering Together the Archive of American Indian...
Over the next few weeks, Sounding Out! is proud to offer a new Thursday series spotlighting endangered radio archives across the United States, the kind of resources whose recognition and preservation...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #40: Linguicide, Indigenous Community and the Search...
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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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Unsettling the World Soundscape Project: The Bell Tower of False Creek,...
Welcome back to Unsettling the World Soundscape Project, a series edited by Randolph Jordan that looks critically and creatively at early acoustic ecology along with the writings and subsequent...
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Enacting Queer Listening, or When Andzaldúa Laughs
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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Sounding Out! Podcast #47: Finding the Lost Sounds of Kaibah
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Sounding Out! Podcast #51: Creating New Words From Old Sounds
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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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Sounding Out! Podcast #60: Standing Rock, Protest, Sound and Power (Part 1)
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Voices at Work: Listening to and for Elsewhere at Public Gatherings in...
“Decolonization,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang propose in “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” “is not an ‘and.’ It is an elsewhere.” Elsewhere, not here, not now. Not here. Not now. Enough! In the...
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Chicana Soundscapes: Introduction
Feminista Music Scholarship understands music production and listening as a collective site of engagement that sometimes produces and sometimes challenges social structures of race, class, gender,...
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Sounding Out Tarima Temporalities: Decolonial Feminista Dance Disruption
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. For last...
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Becoming Sound: Tubitsinakukuru from Mt. Scott to Standing Rock
In the Numu tekwapuha, the Comanche language: Haa ma ruawe, haa nu haitsi. Nu nahnia tsa Dustin Tahmahkera. In this post, I talk about the phrase “becoming sound,” and also gesture to several examples...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #64: Standing Rock, Protest, Sound and Power (Part 2)
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The Idea (of an Idea) of North (Of the North): Glenn Gould’s Piece at 50
AMBIENCE On December 28, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation debuted a radio piece by famed pianist Glenn Gould, titled The Idea of North. Opaque yet spacious, this experiment would become the...
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Playin’ Native and Other Iterations of Sonic Brownface in Hollywood...
Mexican actress Dolores Del Río is admired for her ability to break ground; her dance skills allowed her to portray roles not offered to many women of color early in the 20th Century. One of her most...
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SO! Reads: Kirstie Dorr’s On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in...
“World Music,” both as a concept and as a convenient marketing label for the global music industry, has received a fair deal of deserved criticism over the last two decades, from scholars and musicians...
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Flâneuse>La caminanta
Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice. Although “soundwalking” now describes a...
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Kawa: Rediscovering Indigeneity in China via Reggae
Kawa is a reggae group from Yunnan’s Ximeng, an autonomous county for the Wa people in the southwest of China, bordering Myanmar. When I learned about Kawa’s story in 2016, I was first intrigued by the...
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Xicanacimiento, Life-giving Sonics of Critical Consciousness
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Music Video as Process: “Revitalize” by T-Rhyme
What is a music video, anyway? Historically dismissed by film theorists as cinematically flawed or by the public as mere promotional snippets, music videos didn’t used to get the credit they deserve...
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to follow an invisible creek: in search of a decolonial soundwalk praxis
i begin with an acknowledgement of the myriad of organizers, scholars, artists, and teachers that have shaped and continue to shape the way that i think and write. Édouard Glissant, Christina Sharpe,...
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