In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that
might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim …

The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and
recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to …

In this article, we consider music and noise in terms of vibrational and transferable energy as
well as from the evolutionary significance of the hearing system of Homo sapiens. Music and …

In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of
sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, personhood, and materiality …

This article highlights practices of exclusion embedded in musicology—especially in relation
to race, racialized people, and race relations—in order to rupture its constructed borders and …

From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings
and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used …

In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of
psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic …

Part of a growing group of works that addresses the burgeoning field of sound studies, this
book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations, but also to methodological …

In Sounding Composition Steph Ceraso reimagines listening education to account for twenty-
first century sonic practices and experiences. Sonic technologies such as audio editing …

The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform
research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring …