Sound clash : listening to American Studies / edited by Kara Keeling and Josh Kun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keeling, Kara, 1971-

Kun, Josh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noise--Social aspects.

History.

Noise.

Listening.

Social aspects.

Hearing.

Voice--Social aspects.

Voice.

Sound.

United States--Civilization.

United States.

Civilization.

Sound--Social aspects--United States--History.

Voice--Social aspects--United States--History.

Hearing--Social aspects--United States--History.

Listening--Social aspects--United States--History.

Noise--Social aspects--United States--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Summary:

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 role 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, www.americanquarterly.org. Book jacket.

Contents:

Sound Technologies and Subjectivities

Splitting Sight and Sound: Thomas Dewing's A Reading, Gilded Age Women, and the Phonograph / Asma Naeem Naeem, Asma 17

Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927-1962 / D. Travers Scott Scott, D. Travers 43

"What, for me, constitutes life in a sound?": Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals / Tara Rodgers Rodgers, Tara 65

Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB Radio / Art M. Blake Blake, Art M. 87

The Recording Studio on Stage: Liveness in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / Jessica E. Teague Teague, Jessica E. 111

Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space / Mack Hagood Hagood, Mack 129

Sounding Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

"An Indian in a White Man's Camp": Johnny Cash's Indian Country Music / Dustin Tahmahkera Tahmahkera, Dustin 147

Abolitionism's Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American Performance / Alex W. Black Black, Alex W. 175

Marian Anderson and "Sonic Blackness" in American Opera / Nina Sun Eidsheim Eidsheim, Nina Sun 197

Soul Vibrations: Black Music and Black Freedom in Sound and Space / Gayle Wald Wald, Gayle 229

Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow / Eric Lott Lott, Eric 253

Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry / Roshanak Kheshti Kheshti, Roshanak 267

Sound, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere

The "War on Noise": Sound and Space in La Guardia's New York / Lilian Radovac Radovac, Lilian 289

Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public Soundscape / Ronda L. Sewald Sewald, Ronda L. 317

Reproducing U.S. Citizenship in Blackboard Jungle: Race, Cold War Liberalism, and the Tape Recorder / Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer 337

Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols La Migra / Dolores Inés Casillas Casillas, Dolores Inés 363

The Political Agency of Musical Beauty / Barry Shank Shank, Barry 387.

Notes:

"A special issue of American quarterly"--P. [4] of cover.

"Supplementary sound clips are available at the American quarterly website, www.americanquarterly.org"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1421405717

9781421405711

OCLC:

761858955

Publisher Number:

99951532989