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New Books in Sound Studies

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In an era dominated by visual information, what can the sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to sonic atmospheres uncover new dimensions to states of emergency and their implications for collective life? In Sonic Soci... more

Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and the emergence of liberal democratic institutions in Western and postcolonial societies. Cultural histo... more

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-long conference titled Podcast Intellectuals: Producing Original Scholarship with Audio. Over the cour... more

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-long conference titled Podcast Intellectuals: Producing Original Scholarship with Audio. Over the cour... more

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Recent Guests

Christina Schwenkel
Sociocultural anthropologist; author of Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi
University of California, Riverside
Episode: Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)
Thirumal P
Senior professor in the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad
University of Hyderabad
Episode: P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
Carmel Christy K. J
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Episode: P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
Joy Connolly
President of the ACLS (as discussed in the panel context)
American Council of Learned Societies
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson
Aurora Hutchinson
Dr. (bioethics) and podcasting advocate
Johns Hopkins University (iDeas Lab)
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3 with Joy Connolly, Barry Lam, and Aurora Hutchinson
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Scholar and audio producer; panelist
New York University
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton
Barry Lam
Philosophy professor and podcast producer
Hi-Phi Nation
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton
Julia Barton
Radio/ podcast producer and host
Radiolab / NYU
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton
Benjamen Walker
Podcast maker and co-founder of Radiotopia; discussing his projects and approach to narrative audio
The Theory of Everything; Radiotopia
Episode: Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski

Hosts

Kristie Soares
Co-host of Soundscapes and affiliated with various Soundscapes NYC/related outlets; appears frequently as a host, collaborator, and interviewer.
Ryan Purcell
Co-host with frequent involvement in interviews and discussions across multiple sound-focused programs.
Gregory McNiff
Host specializing in sound studies and related scholarly conversations; links to broader New Books Network.
Colleen Renihan
Co-host with John Spilker-Beed and Trudi Wright on education and care in music pedagogy.

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Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: How does sonic governance reinterpret the relationship between the state and citizens during crises?
Sonic governance reveals that state power is enacted not only through top-down directives but through collectively organized listening, shared sounds, and everyday practices that mobilize communities, while also exposing uneven labor, risk, and the gendered work of care that keeps society functioning.
Christina Schwenkel, "Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: Could you walk us through how your earlier research evolved into this sensorium of listening and sonic governance?
The shift was gradual and collaborative between fieldwork and theory: I began as a memory and infrastructure scholar, but the pandemic forced me to attend to sound as a social and political practice, leading to a mixed-method, sensorial approach that reoriented questions about crises, governance, and everyday life.
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski
Q: How do you balance the storytelling aspect with theoretical discussions to ensure the audio remains engaging while still rigorous?
Storytelling is something academics aspire to but finding a balance between engaging narrative and theoretical depth is ongoing; the podcasts allow scenes and conversations to articulate ideas without overloading listeners with dense exposition.
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski
Q: I'm wondering in your writing process, how do you reflect on both of those polls and integrate it into how you produce the text, but also produce the audio?
The true answer is that I'm not really sure yet; we are doing a lot of recordings and fieldwork, revisiting grounds, and gradually shaping how the audio will inform the book, with no fixed narrative arch yet.
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: How do you study atmospheric practices in Micronesia?
An atmospheric understanding of knowledge can highlight the relationship between ancestral wisdom and modern environmental practices.

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This series centers scholarly conversations about sound, culture, and history, often tying academic research to broader cultural moments in music, media, and sonic environments. Episodes feature historians, ethnographers, and scientists discussing published works ranging from disco and dance culture to animal acoustics, prison soundscapes, and ethnographic sound practices. A recurring strength is the way guests connect rigorous scholarship to lived cultural histories, using clear storytelling to illuminate how sound shapes social life, identity, politics, and everyday experience. A notable facet is the sustained attention to underexplored communities and archives—such as Black and queer nightlifes, Indigenous and Pacific sound practices, an... more

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