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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 1–12.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Gustavus Stadler The introduction to “The Politics of Recorded Sound,” this special issue of Social Text , lays out the unifying mission of the diverse essays: to study sound recording within a wide-ranging, historicized understanding of mediation as a process embedded within networks of power...
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Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
...David Suisman This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event...
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Sound and Movement: Vernaculars of Sonic Dissent
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
... were already presumed gone. This article reorients the question of where the protest songs are toward a broader inquiry into sound’s relationship to dissent. Protest music is best understood as a genre, limited by its musical structure as well as its era. Phrased as where is the sound of dissent...
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tariq Jazeel; Tom Western Abstract This article introduces the special issue of Social Text titled “Sound Carries,” which hears how sound carries across geographies, histories, and disciplines—carries meanings, struggles, and creative ways of being and knowing. The editors of this special issue...
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Radio Silence: Black Technologies and the Sound of Britain's Dying Colonialism
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 49–69.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tao Leigh Goffe Abstract Despite British colonial authorities’ intentions, Black sound technologies and technologists flourished during World War II and the years following it. News radio was a colonial project with a civilizing mission that partly functioned through the British Broadcasting...
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“This Is Not the Sound of the Asian Underground”: On the Borders of Britain's New Asian Kool, 1997–2000
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 71–89.
Published: 01 March 2025
... British Asian dance musics that had begun to emerge from the mid-1990s, was aimed in no uncertain terms at the dance floor. In the track's opening few seconds a male voice declares, “This is not the sound of the Asian Underground. This is music.” At forty-four seconds the refrain is repeated, followed...
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figure 1 Arthur Jafa, Crystal and Nick Siegfried , 2017. Video (color, sound), 3 min, 5 sec.
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figures 2–3. Arthur Jafa, Crystal and Nick Siegfried , 2017. Video (color, sound), 3 min, 5 sec.
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Figure 4 Arthur Jafa, Sharifa Walks , 2015. Video (color, sound), 4 min, 18 sec.
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Figure 5 Arthur Jafa, Sharifa Walks , 2015. Video (color, sound), 4 min, 18 sec.
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Figures 6–7. Arthur Jafa, Apex , 2013. Video (color, sound), 8 min, 12 sec.
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Figures 8–9. Arthur Jafa, Apex , 2013. Video (color, sound), 8 min, 12 sec.
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Hedley Jones Quartet using musical instruments and sound recording equipmen...
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Figure 1. Hedley Jones Quartet using musical instruments and sound recording equipment.
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Sounding Death, Saying Something
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., they lent their voices to the project. By juxtaposing these “soundings” with dreams Inuit youth have of their dead friends, the author thinks about the possibility of “sending” our voices to the absent/dead and the way they send their voices to us. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 voice...
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Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman This essay examines the sonic archive of tape recording artist Tony Schwartz, in particular his 1955 Folkways album Nueva York: A Tape Documentary of Puerto Rican New Yorkers . Working from assumptions located in sound studies, I argue that Schwartz's recordings...
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Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of sound, the architecture of the favela, and the ways in which sound is employed to mark off space and express identity and alterity. Pentecostal broadcasts acquire their meaning against the background of sound that evangelicals define as “worldly” instead of Godly, and the cacophony of sounds...
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Thanatosonics: Ontologies of Acoustic Violence
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 25–51.
Published: 01 June 2014
...J. Martin Daughtry This essay explores the relationship between sound, violence, and the sensorium within the context of the recent war in Iraq. It argues that, at extreme volumes or in extreme psychosocial circumstances, wartime sounds become untethered from their indexicality, losing much or all...
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Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Mara Mills This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed...
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Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 87–105.
Published: 01 March 2010
... descriptions of the recordings from period documents, the essay argues that there was a specific confluence between lynching reenactments and the notion of a “phonographic voice,” between sounds elicited from persons on the edge of “the human” and the sound imagined to come from the machine itself. It places...
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Enemy Voice
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 79–100.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Jonathan Sterne Since the invention of sound-transcription devices in the early nineteenth century, philosophers, linguists, inventors, audiences, and others have debated whether it is the meaningful act of speech or the material sound of the voice itself which defines the speaking subject...
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