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Garageland! Authenticity and Musical Taste
First show with The Carpetbaggers! @The Manor. Today’s post is a bit of a confessional. Reflecting on Andreas Duus Pape’s post a few weeks back, Building Intimate Performance Venues on the Internet, I...
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The Sound of Hippiesomething, or Drum Circles at #OccupyWallStreet
Photo from Zuccotti Park, September 28 2011 by Flickr user David Shankbone Last week’s news was been full of alarming stories of real and threatened violence at various #Occupy sites around America....
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The Specialty Record Shop
Harold Kelley holds "Blue Danube," a 78 record. Single 78s are visible on the rack below. Behind him is the store's soundproof listening booth. Circa 1949. In 1947, my grandparents converted a room...
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DIANE… The Personal Voice Recorder in Twin Peaks
READERS. 9:00 a.m. April 2nd. Entering the next installment of SO!’s spring series, Live from the SHC, where we bring you the latest from the 2011-2012 Fellows of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities,...
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Quiet on the Set? : The Artist and the Sound of a Silent Resurgence
On a recent episode of Law and Order: SVU Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson takes her new paramour, David Haden (played by Harry Connick Jr.) to see Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist. When Benson asks...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop
In honor of Record Store Day (4/21!!!!) our latest podcast investigates what it means to inhabit the most profound of listening spaces, the record store. While we have done some written investigation...
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“The Happiest Day of the Year”: A Reparative (I Hope) Approach to Record...
Editor’s Note: This post, by media scholar Norma Coates, was originally published on May 9, 2011, by the excellent folks over at Flow TV, a critical forum on television and media culture published by...
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In the Flesh: Embodiment, Listening, and Transcription
The Fleshtones Setlist, 9/11/12 show in Bilbao, Spain, Editor’s Note: July 18th, 2012 has been designated as World Listening Day by the World Listening Project, a nonprofit organization founded in...
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Could I Be Chicana Without Carlos Santana?
Carlos Santana by Flickr User Momez This may be a given but I have to ask: Why is the music of Carlos Santana considered “Chicano music?” It’s true; I am a fan. And as a fan I never question why I love...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #14: Interview with Meme Librarian Amanda Brennan
Click to view slideshow. In this podcast Sounding Out! interviews Amanda Brennan, the meme librarian at Know Your Meme. Here, Amanda explains well known audio memes like The Harlem Shake, The ASMR...
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Fandom, Elvis Costello and Goodbye Cruel World
Not so recently, while moving, I disbursed about half of my record collection to friends and used CD outlets. Although I eschewed many records that I never cared for, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash &...
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Hold This Thread: A Partial History of a Rock n’Roll Relationship
I got my first computer, A Packard Bell desktop, in 1995, when I was 11, and my parents would only buy it after three trips to Comp USA where they found a salesman with enough patience to make them...
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GLaDOS, the Voice of Postfeminist Control
Warning, spoilers ahead. Image borrowed from ElderGeek. Much has been written about Portal, it has won at least seven “Game of the Year” awards and has been ranked as the “Best Game of all Time” by...
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Eye Candy: The Absence of the Female Voice in Sports Talk Radio
If masculinity is alive and well [on sports talk radio], femininity exists on talk radio as absence, lack, and difference. — John Reffue Radio al atardecer by Flickr user Dany Rivera Tune in to any...
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Brasil Ao Vivo!: The Sonic Pleasures of Liveness in Brazilian Popular Culture
Brazilians pray, cheer and celebrate in public and often in close physical proximity to each other. From the nearly 3 million people that flocked to Copacabana Beach to hear Pope Francis lead a mass...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #35: Sonic Beyoncé Roundtable
https://soundstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/sonic-beyonce-roundtable.mp3 . CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Roundtable on Sonic Beyoncé SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER...
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Beyoncé’s New Weave Swing, or How to Snatch Wigs With Hair Choreography
This September, Sounding Out! challenged a #flawless group of scholars and critics to give Beyoncé Knowles-Carter a close listen, re-examining the complex relationship between her audio and visuals and...
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Top 40 Democracy: Taylor Swift’s Election Day Victory
As we read of the decisive Republican victories in the 2014 midterm elections we also hear that Taylor Swift has sold 1.29 million copies of her 1989 album in just a week. Does Swift’s landslide...
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LMGM’s “Lost: Choirboy”& El Jefe’s “Muñoz & La Mission: A Sermon. . .” (in...
Come, let us sing of great men. Well, just one man, not men—and masculine gender is not essential for our purposes. Come to think of it, his greatness isn’t nearly as important as his fierceness, his...
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Standing Up, For Jose
The following video installation by Mandie O’Connell, is part three of a four part series, “Round Circle of Resonance” by the Berlin based arts collective La Mission that performs connections between...
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Music to Grieve and Music to Celebrate: A Dirge for Muñoz
Here is part four of the series “Round Circle of Resonance,“from the Berlin-based arts collective La Mission, who performs connections between the theory of José Esteban Muñoz and sound...
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Finding My Voice While Listening to John Cage
Editor’s Note: Today I bring you installment #4 of Sounding Out!‘s blog forum on gender and voice! Last week Regina Bradley put the soundtrack of Scandal in conversation with race and gender. The week...
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Live Through This: Sonic Affect, Queerness, and the Trembling Body
Marginalized bodies produce marginalized sounds to communicate things that escape language. The queer body is the site of sounds that engage pleasure, repression, rage, isolation, always somehow...
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Malcolm Gladwell’s Bad Aesthetics
Malcolm Gladwell, who recently wrapped the first season of his podcast Revisionist History, has been on a roll lately. Not a particularly endearing one, though. I’ve been trying to locate his nadir,...
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Feeling Through the Keen and Grind: Team Dresch’s Personal Best
Image of Alice Bag used with her permission (thank you!) “Genres, styles form around places of cohesion, of transport, of passage. Not an instrumental mathematics (though it can be that too), but a...
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Surf, Sun, and Smog: Audio-Visual Imagery + Performance in Mexico City’s...
Riding the Surf Wave in a City Without a Seashore On April 24, 2005, at Zócalo square in downtown Mexico City, the Surf y Arena music festival gathered around 100,000 people and nine bands, ranging...
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Benefit Concerts and the Sound of Self-Care in Pop Music
Less than two weeks after a suicide bombing killed 22 people at the Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert, the singer was back on stage in the city. She capped her three-hour One Love...
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Deep Listening as Philogynoir: Playlists, Black Girl Idiom, and Love
Here at Sounding Out! we like to celebrate World Listening Day (July 18) with a blog series. This year, we bring your attention to the role of listening when it comes to the sounds of the K-12...
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Unapologetic Paisa Chingona-ness: Listening to Fans’ Sonic Identities
For the full intro to the series by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. The forum’s inspiring research by scholars/practioners Wanda Alarcón, Yessica Garcia Hernandez, Marlen Rios-Hernandez, Susana...
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Hardcore as “Home”: An Etymology of CORE through Chicana Punk Sound
For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here. The forum’s inspiring research by scholars/practioners Wanda...
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“Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature
For the full intro to the forum by Michelle Habell-Pallan, click here. For the first installment by Yessica Garcia Hernandez click here. For the second post by Susana Sepulveda click here. The...
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SO! READS: Melissa Mora Hidalgo’s Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands
These days it’s a challenge to be reviewing a book that has anything to do with the English singer-writer Morrissey, given his support for Brexit and anti-immigrant nationalist political parties in the...
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Listening to the Beautiful Game: The Sounds of the 2018 World Cup
I heard them before I saw them. Walking to my apartment in Moscow’s Tverskoy District, I noticed a pulsating mass of sound in the distance. Turning the corner, I found a huge swath of light blue and...
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What Do We Hear in Depp v. Heard?
As you probably know—whether you want to or not—the jury reached a verdict earlier this summer in the trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. The trial, in the Fairfax County Circuit Court in...
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Xicanacimiento, Life-giving Sonics of Critical Consciousness
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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Listening to MAGA Politics within US/Mexico’s Lucha Libre
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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