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Digital Sound Studies
- Editor: Lingold, Mary Caton
- Editor: Mueller, Darren
- Editor: Trettien, Whitney
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...
Digital Sound Studies
- Editor: Lingold, Mary Caton
- Editor: Mueller, Darren
- Editor: Trettien, Whitney
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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...
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The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines-including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science-the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive. As they demonstrate, incorporating sound into scholarship is thus not only feasible but urgently necessary.
Contributors. Myron M. Beasley, Regina N. Bradley, Steph Ceraso, Tanya Clement, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, W. F. Umi Hsu, Michael J. Kramer, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Richard Cullen Rath, Liana M. Silva, Jonathan Sterne, Jennifer Stoever, Jonathan W. Stone, Joanna Swafford, Aaron Trammell, Whitney Trettien
Contents
- Preface 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
Awards and reviews
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
