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New Books in Sound Studies

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How the sound of the female playback voice impacts Bollywood's cultural, musical, and cinematic environment.

Drawing on sound studies and performance theory, scholar Shikha Jhingan explores the discursive nature of the female playback voice in Bomba... more

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A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood. An acclaimed poet with a quiet, dignified mode of address. The sonic etiquette and experience of quiet is integral to each of these sce... more

The YIVO Sound Archive houses over 20,000 recordings (including 78, 45, and 33rpm discs, open-reel and cassette tapes, piano rolls, and compact discs and other digital formats) as well as various artifacts related to sound recordings. It is is one of... more

In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches ... more

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and special guest host, Melanie Kiechle (Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech), chat with radio producers Chris Hoff and and Sam Harnett about their sound production project, The World According to Sound. H... more

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear i... more

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Petal Kimberly Samuel
Author, scholar; professor and author of The Quiet Zone, Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance
Rutgers University Press
Episode: Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Lorin Sklamberg
Lead singer associated with Jewish music projects and Klezkamp
Klezkamp; YIVO
Episode: The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
Henry Sapoznik
Founder/early figure in the sound archive and klezmer revival advocate
YIVO Sound Archive; Klezmer revival scene
Episode: The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
Jenny Romaine
Puppeteer and performer who contributed to re-contextualizing Jewish history
YIVO Sound Archive
Episode: The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
Eléonore Biezunski
Archivist and scholar focusing on Ruth Rubin collection and Ruth Rubin repertoire
YIVO Sound Archive; Institut Européen des Musiques Juives (Paris)
Episode: The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
Mariam Goshadze
Author of The Noise Silence Makes, Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars
Leipzig University
Episode: Mariam Goshadze, "The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars" (Duke UP, 2025)
Chris Hoff
Award-winning former radio producer, World According to Sound co-creator
World According to Sound
Episode: The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning
Sam Harnett
Co-creator of World According to Sound, sound artist
World According to Sound
Episode: The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning
Deirdre Loughridge
Co-author of The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
Northeastern University
Episode: Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)

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Kendall DeNeyne
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Lee Vinsel
Host of Peoples & Things show on Virginia Tech platform

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Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Q: How does your book engage with Black feminist thought on reading sound in archives?
Samuel discusses reading sound against the grain, using models from Hartman and Nkola to uncover counter-histories and to reveal how sound encodes power, gender, and sexuality in archival records.
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Q: What is sensory rationalism, and how does it function in the archive?
She defines sensory rationalism as a rhetoric that portrays noise complaints as universally reasonable while masking deeper racial and gendered anxieties; it is a strategy to normalize disciplinary practices.
Petal Kimberly Samuel, "The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance" (Rutgers UP, 2026)
Q: Welcome to the discussion. Could you introduce the central question of your project and what first drew you to this archive?
Samuel explains her archival curiosity about silence, voice, and creole in Caribbean literature, and how studying archival silence led her to explore how sonic surveillance operated in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
The YIVO Sound Archive at 40: A Celebration
Q: What was the hardest part of saving, finding, and sharing these recordings in the early days?
Dissemination was initially analog and slow, with limited access and restrictive playback policies, which made opening the collection and making recordings publicly available a major challenge.
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.

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This channel features in-depth conversations with scholars and practitioners about recently published work in sound studies, archives, musicology, and related humanities fields. Episodes commonly center on how sound shapes culture, governance, and everyday life, including topics like sonic regimes, archival practices, ethnography of listening, and the material histories of musical objects. Guests range from university presses authors to archivists and artists, offering rigorous academic perspectives alongside experiential insights from fieldwork and production. A standout pattern is the blend of historical context with contemporary methods—from digitization projects and public-facing scholarship to sonic ethnography and media-inflected rese... more

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