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9781421405711 Academic Inspection Copy

Sound Clash

Listening to American Studies
  • ISBN-13: 9781421405711
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Kara Keeling, Edited by Josh Kun
  • Price: AUD $86.99
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  • Local release date: 14/07/2012
  • Format: Paperback 440 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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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. They are particularly interested in analyzing sound and exploring 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 changeHow 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.
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