Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok
Ventriloquism, or the art of "throwing the voice," has outdated and even unsettling connotations to many, associated with vaudeville and the nefarious talking dolls of so many horror movies. Despite this, ventriloquism remains a popular performance art, filling theaters and concert venues with audiences eager to hear puppets voice what humans, in ......
In Wild Tongue, writer, scholar, and musician Jonathan Leal invites readers to the Texas borderlands to witness contemporary sonic cultures and expressive forms of Latine struggle and world-making. Blending autoethnography, music criticism, and border theory into an epistolary mixtape, Leal depicts the borderlands as a generative place made by its ......
The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes "echoic memory" to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present-and from the neighborhood to the nation to the globe - to trace how sonic practices produce and ......
The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes "echoic memory" to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present - and from the neighborhood to the nation to the globe - to trace how sonic practices produce ......
In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving sounds from the archive that were not meant to be heard. Drawing on Angel Rama's notion of the Lettered City, Madrid proposes a notion of the Aural City - a Latin American urban intellectual elite for whom sound and listening are central to the ......
In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving sounds from the archive that were not meant to be heard. Drawing on Angel Rama's notion of the Lettered City, Madrid proposes a notion of the Aural City - a Latin American urban intellectual elite for whom sound and listening are central to the ......
Topics covered include a framework for analyzing the relationships between space and sound; British Asian dance music as a reflection on the politics of genre and multiculture; Caribbean radio and Black technologies as the sound of Britain's dying colonialism; Black music as folk music in England; and sonic third worldism in the Eastern ......
Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss, affirms the value of Black life through sound while critiquing anti-Blackness as a cause of erasure, silence, and limitation. He examines Swiss Nigerian ......
Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss, affirms the value of Black life through sound while critiquing anti-Blackness as a cause of erasure, silence, and limitation. He examines Swiss Nigerian ......
