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OverviewThe 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 roles 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kara Keeling (Associate Professor, University of Southern California) , Josh Kun (Associate Professor and Director of the Popular Music Project, University of Southern California)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9781421405711ISBN 10: 1421405717 Pages: 440 Publication Date: 02 July 2012 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Sound Technologies and Subjectivities Chapter 1. Splitting Sight and Sound: Thomas Dewing's A Reading, Gilded Age Women, and the Phonograph Chapter 2. Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927-1962 Chapter 3. What, for me, constitutes life in a sound? : Electronic Sounds as Lively and Differentiated Individuals Chapter 4. Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB Radio Chapter 5. The Recording Studio on Stage: Liveness in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Chapter 6. Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space Part II: Sounding Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Chapter 7. An Indian in a White Man's Camp : Johnny Cash's Indian Country Music Chapter 8. Abolitionism's Resonant Bodies: The Realization of African American Performance Chapter 9. Marian Anderson and Sonic Blackness in American Opera Chapter 10. Soul Vibrations: Black Music and Black Freedom in Sound and Space Chapter 11. Back Door Man: Howlin' Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow Chapter 12. Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry Part III: Sound, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere Chapter 13. The War on Noise : Sound and Space in La Guardia's New York Chapter 14. Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public Soundscape Chapter 15. Reproducing U.S. Citizenship in Blackboard Jungle: Race, Cold War Liberalism, and the Tape Recorder Chapter 16. Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols La Migra Chapter 17. The Political Agency of Musical Beauty Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKara Keeling is an associate professor in the School of Cinematic Arts and in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense. Josh Kun is an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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