...Alexander G. Weheliye Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘I Am I Be The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity Alexander G. Weheliye We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone. —Edouard Glissant, Poetics...

...Naomi Waltham-Smith What is at stake when the sonorous becomes a condition of possibility for a concept of community? Exploring the ex(ap)propriation of the sonic that takes places at the threshold between the refusal of presence in French deconstruction (Derrida, Nancy) and the refusal...

... Sound.” The first part establishes the Minneapolis milieu, specifically that of the black neighborhoods, and how it formed Prince and his cohort, such as James “Jimmy Jam” Harris Jr., Terry Lewis, André Cymone, Morris Day, and others. The second part is a close analysis of Prince's music and its sonic...

.... , and McLaughlin Stephen . 2015 . “ Visualizing Applause in the PennSound Archive .” Jacket2 , October 18 . https://jacket2.org/commentary/clement-mclaughlin-pennsound-applause . Dworkin Craig . 2013 . No Medium . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Ernst Wolfgang . 2016 . Sonic Time...

.... For years, Coltrane’s photo was the only one that decorated Davis’s walls. The republication of the Davis-Coltrane musical partnership sug- gests that fresh critical energy should be brought to these sonic texts. These recordings are special documents in the history of jazz. The Davis- Coltrane...

... Vertov and Jean Epstein in order to test the limits of sonic epistemology—and, ultimately, to imagine what it might mean to conceive of synthetic sound as documentary sound. [email protected] Copyright ©2022 by Duke University Press 2022 documentary synthetic sound sound studies...

...Jennifer Scappettone This article examines the critical ruptures and dilutions of a contemporary “ambient poetic”—a tendency in sonic, visual, and textual arts to aspire toward an atmospheric condition—through analysis of Tan Lin's verse architectonics across book and digital media. Setting...

... of offering shelter to the houseless, its vacancy became all the more material during the height of the COVID‐19 pandemic. What do abolitionists do with such vacancies? Inspired by the sonic geography of Angela Davis's memories of the New York Women's House of Detention, this article is a performance of how...

... exploration of thematic, lyric, and sonic textures. The churning ferocity of the C-sharp Minor’s triumphant allegro finale completes an elaborate four- opus meditation established upon the sonata form driven to uncanny perfor- mative complexity by fugal structures, gleaned from Beethoven’s childhood...

... with century- old technology of the phonograph (tape was wisely deemed too fragile). Though the phonograph is a traditional analog storage device with a stylus and a groove, the authors position it as a binary device by making the point that the foundation of any sonic inscription is oscillation: a toggling...

... at Ohio State University. His new book, A Token of My Affec- tion: A Cultural History of American Greeting Cards, is forthcoming. He is beginning an investigation of the sonic strategies of abstraction and embodiment in the music of Yoko Ono. Hortense Spillers is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor...

... indifference? With what exactly and how boundary 2 43:1 (2016) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­3340637 © 2016 by Duke University Press 44 boundary 2 / February 2016 are we bound to the identity of sonic entities, from noise to musical works (in the broadest sense of “the work”—as a framework or coherence...

... is jettisoned in favor of the contradictory and dissonant work of sonic research pursued by musical thinkers freeing themselves of premodern imperatives of meaning, valua- tion, and de-notation. In so doing, they also tend to free themselves of all critical and commercial visibility. They find their work...

... in the fields of political thought and critical theory, Caribbean intellectual history, and Caribbean art. He is currently working on a book titled Black Critique and a book/sonic project on politics and music in Jamaica during the 1970s. He joined the boundary 2 editorial collective in 2000. Arne De...

... communities of listeners are created through the formal and stylistic characteristics of late eighteenth-century­ and early nineteenth-­century music. She is also embarking upon a project on urban street sound, which investigates how the sonic participates in the logics and econo- mies of precarity...

... to emphasize. Decorum and a particular idea of beauty as civilizing values butt against the rough ranks of the poor. Again the consonance of the r 's draws our ear as the rough ranks are set in sonic harmony and visually cacophonous proximity. As James Sullivan ( 2002 : 564) accurately points out in his...

... for runaway slaves masters sometimes attempted to retrieve their property by describing its distinc- tive sonic features. Among the first representations of Negro music in the eighteenth century were characterizations of the audible black body, bring- ing into relation the physical qualities of voice...

... the postwar social structure. To motivate the arrival of such a utopia, Attali wrenches together a kind of sonic Hegelianism in which music provides privileged access to the movements of history and political economy. Thus, while a collaborator in the intellectual “denigration of vision” (Jay 1994...

.... Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Weiss, Peter. The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel. Trans. Joachim Neu- groschel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Wong, Shawn. American Knees: A Novel. Seattle: University of Washington Press...

...  boundary 2  /  Fall 2009 cultivation of explicitly dissonant sonic elements into the genre) organizing the sound, but, less than a decade after the first massively produced rap record, began to lead the entire music industry. Much has been made of Rakim’s introduction of internal rhyme...