| Sound Clash: Listening to American Studies Contributor(s): Keeling, Kara (Editor), Kun, Josh (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421405717 ISBN-13: 9781421405711 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Media Studies - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 306.484 |
| Series: Special Issue of American Quarterly |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 440 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The selected essays analyze sound and explore inter-American soundscapes within several areas, including - media technologies and consumption How 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. |