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New Books in Sound Studies

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early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.

The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution,

and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance

expressions as intangible cultura... more

Stacey Copeland, Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage and

Identity at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the

University of Groningen, joins Jana Byars to talk about⁠ Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork⁠

... more

Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal (Wesleyan University Press, 2026) brings

together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration

studies to explore the sonic traces of untouchability and for... more

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

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her lov... more

Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. Yet its evolution and integration into our daily

lives has been comparatively gradual – so gradual, crucially, that it is easy to

forget just how much ... more

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

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Recent Guests

Michelle Bigenho
Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Africana and Latin American Studies, Colgate University
Colgate University
Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Henry Stobart
Professor based at Royal Holloway, University of London; ethnomusicologist
Royal Holloway, University of London
Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Stacey Copeland
Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage and Identity at the Center for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Connagah
University of Connecticut? (text shows Connagah, likely a misspelling of Conn University)
Episode: Stacey Copeland, "Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Shikha Jhingan
Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Episode: Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Ginger Dellenbaugh
Musician, historian of music and politics, trained opera singer
Author of Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode: Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Ralph Jones
Author of Microphone (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Bloomsbury
Episode: Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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

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Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Q: Could you describe how you approached the topic together and what your collaborative method looks like?
They discuss their collaborative, multi-temporal ethnographic approach, combining decades of fieldwork, interviewing strategies tailored to each context, and a shift from solo projects to joint fieldwork to explore how heritage laws are produced and contested.
Stacey Copeland, "Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
Q: How do you define and employ queer feminism in your work?
She describes queer feminism as combining LGBTQ activism with feminist politics, prioritizing women and gender equity, integrating intersectionality, and making strategic choices about what identities and theories foregrounded in analysis, especially when examining media production and sound.
Carola E. Lorea, "Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal" (Wesleyan UP, 2026)
Q: Can you talk about the research methods and techniques you used?
I rely on sonic ethnography and deep listening, using field recordings collaboratively, engaging the whole body as a sensorium, and incorporating participatory singing and shared performances to elicit conversations about oral criticism and interpretation of songs and drumming.
Carola E. Lorea, "Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal" (Wesleyan UP, 2026)
Q: How would you like to introduce Communities of Sound to our listeners?
I describe the book as a study that foregrounds the sounds that co-create communities, emphasizing how sonic practices shape belonging, mobility, and social justice across Bengal and its diasporas, beyond static categorizations of culture.
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.

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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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