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Empty Orchestra: The Karaoke Standard and Pop Celebrity

Karen Tongson
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 85–108.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798355
Published: 01 January 2015
... . Zhou Xun Tarocco Francesca 2007 . Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon . London : Reaktion Books . Kindle Edition . 2015 aesthetics karaoke media studies reality TV sound studies Celebrity has taken a decisive turn toward the ordinary in recent decades ( Gamson 2011 : 1062...
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Radio Meydan: “Eastern Music” and the Liminal Sovereign Imaginaries of Crimea

Maria Sonevytsky
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 93–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181853
Published: 01 January 2019
... to the aural dimension of sovereign imaginaries? Just as ethnomusicologists have long asserted that the political “is not merely an adjunct to the sound but embedded in it” ( Meintjes 1990 : 38), popular music studies has established a well-worn trope of popular music as embodying desires—be they libidinal...
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Atmospheric Citizenship: Sonic Movement and Public Religion in Shi‘i Mumbai

Patrick Eisenlohr
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 371–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262877
Published: 01 September 2021
... . “ Musical Atmospheres and Sea-Nomadic Movement among the Sama Dilaut: Sounding Out a Mobile World .” Mobile Culture Studies 3 , no. 3 : 21 – 36 . doi.org/10.25364/08.3:2017.1.2 . Abels Birgit . 2018 . “ Music, Affect, and Atmospheres: Meaning and Meaningfulness in Palauan omengeredakl...
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Radio, Citizenship, and the “Sound Standards” of a Newly Independent India

Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 117–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181862
Published: 01 January 2019
...–1933 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Vatsyayan Kapila . 2006 . Bhāratā: Nāṭyašāstrā . New Delhi : Sāhityā Akāḍamī . ( Hindi ). Wade Bonnie C. 1999 . Imagining Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Sense Experiences: Religious Affairs and the Palpability of State Power

Denise Gill
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 393–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262891
Published: 01 September 2021
... of its people, with varying degrees of success. I provide specific examples from Istanbul and Ankara in which individuals were exposed—often for the first time—to acoustics of violence and war. Scholars have already provided excellent studies of sounds during this failed coup attempt in terms of cultural...
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Where Is This Place? Crowds, Audio-vision, and Poetry in Postelection Iran

Setrag Manoukian
Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 237–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-027
Published: 01 May 2010
.... 1987 . The 1953 coup d'état in Iran. International Journal of Middle East Studies 19 : 261 –86. Goldstein, Malcolm. 1988. Sounding the full circle. Sheffield, Vt.: Malcolm Goldstein. www.frogpeak.org/unbound/goldstein/goldstein_fullcircle.pdf . hanaa. 2009. Farda ruz-e bozorg e, shayad...
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Allá in the Mix: Mexican Sonideros and the Musical Politics of Migrancy

Josh Kun
Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 533–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2896219
Published: 01 September 2015
... . Stephen Lynn . 2007 . Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . St. John Graham . 2005 . “ Outback Vibes: Sound Systems on the Road to Legitimacy .” Postcolonial Studies 8 , no. 3 : 321 – 36 . Taylor Diana...
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Voices of the Rainforest

Steven Feld
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 131–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-131
Published: 01 January 1991
...Steven Feld Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 PUBLIC CULTURE’S current cover is also the cover of a CD/cassette recording of music and environmental sounds from Bosavi, Papua New Guinea, commercially released by the Rykodisc label in April...
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Guru and Gramophone: Fantasies of Fidelity and Modern Technologies of the Real

Amanda Weidman
Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 453–476.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-3-453
Published: 01 September 2003
... with frequencies and sound waves, memory with a memory bank, forget- ting with deleting, the devoted disciple with a computer, and a lifetime of study with the instantaneity of digital processing. It is both a fantasy of disembodied perfection...
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The Grooves of Temporality

Alexander G. Weheliye
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 319–338.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-319
Published: 01 May 2005
... new and different versions of time, synonymous with the rhythms found in and The Grooves of sounding from the grooves of sonic Afro-modernity. Temporality Alexander G. Weheliye is assistant professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University...
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Present Absentee: Arab Music in Israeli Culture

Motti Regev
Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 433–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-2-433
Published: 01 May 1995
...Motti Regev Copyright © 1995 by the University of Chicago 1995 Research on Arab music in Israel was funded by the Institute for Israeli Arab Studies in Beit Berl. The author wishes to thank Shaul Mishal for his encouragement, and Eric Cohen, Don Handel man and Danni Rabinowitz...
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A Sweet Lullaby for World Music

Steven Feld
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 145–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-145
Published: 01 January 2000
...Steven Feld © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Steven Feld teaches anthropology at New York University. His work as a sound recordist includes the CD Voices of the Rainforest . As a musician he has played with Bonefied, TG3, Leadbelly Legacy, and Live Action Brass Band. His “Notes...
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Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa

Thomas Blom Hansen
Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-185
Published: 01 January 2006
... and politics: Politics and cultural identity among South African Indians. Journal of Southern African Studies 26 : 255 -69. Hansen, Thomas B. 2005 . In search of the diasporic self: Bollywood in South Africa. In Bollyworlds , edited by Raminder Kaur and Ajay Sinha. London: Sage Publications...
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“Heart in the Wound”

Ann Cvetkovich
Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 499–516.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-3-499
Published: 01 September 2005
...Ann Cvetkovich © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Ann Cvetkovich Ann Cvetkovich is a professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism (1992...
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Resounding Souls : Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition

Cheryl A. Wall
Public Culture (2005) 17 (2): 217–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-17-2-217
Published: 01 May 2005
... ends as Du Bois, in his study at Atlanta University, meditates on the sounds he has heard. Du Bois’s “Black Belt” is the center of the black population in the United States. More than one million African Americans lived in Georgia...
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Notes on World Beat

Steven Feld
Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 31–37.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1-1-31
Published: 01 January 1988
...Steven Feld Copyright © 1988 by the Project For Transnational Culture Studies, University of Pennsylvania 1988 Notes on World Beat Steven Feld Department of Anthropology and Music University of Texas, Austin "It is simply incontestable that year by year American popular music...
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The Sublime Frequencies of New Old Media

David Novak
Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 603–634.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1336435
Published: 01 September 2011
... Storring . Posted October 29 . endofworldmusic.blogspot.com . Chun Wendy . 2006 . Control and freedom: Power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press . Clifford James . 1981 . On ethnographic surrealism . Comparative Studies in Society and History...
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Electro- Dabke : Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Borderless Humanity

Nadeem Karkabi
Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 173–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4189215
Published: 01 January 2018
...Nadeem Karkabi Dabke is traditional, nonreligious dance music from Greater Syria. In the 1980s, it went through a rapid transition from live into synthesized performance, allowing musicians to experiment with new available sounds that reached global electronic music dance floors. This article...
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Severed Voices: Radio and the Mediation of Trauma in the Eichmann Trial

Amit Pinchevski, Tamar Liebes
Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 265–291.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-028
Published: 01 May 2010
...: A study in the psychology of panic . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Carpenter, Edmund, and Marshall McLuhan. 1960 . Acoustic space. In Explorations in communication , edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan. Boston: Beacon. Caruth, Cathy. 1996 . Unclaimed experience: Trauma...
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Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)

Stephen Best
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 431–439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090173
Published: 01 May 2020
...Stephen Best Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine...
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