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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
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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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