Sounding Out!

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/k0be4-s6s31 SO!

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/d7npv-9gn02 The classic Hindi film, Darr (1993), directed by Yash Chopra, is the story of the stalker Rahul, played by Shah Rukh Khan, wreaking havoc on the lives of the innocent lovers, Kiran and Sunil (played by Juhi Chawla…

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/xgm8r-acg57 It is July 4, 2025.

The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains.

The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/ptkds-a2v12 In January 2026, WIRED reported that U.S.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/g8byn-fea85 My Chemical Romance fans are speculating about new music after the band wiped their X account clean and wrapped up the Latin America leg of their tour this month.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/2ggqc-77f66 From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics (SUNY Press, 2024) by Alexis McGee explores Black women’s creative labor and cultural production.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/h1xxb-5vh69 Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests (Penn State University Press) is a book “about the sounds made by those seeking change” (5).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/zpgnq-c0z97 But first. . .

. 16 years in, we’re still here, listening hard for each thump, rasp, and rattle of the drum to amplify for our readers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/pz0qh-e2m07 I began reading Marisol Negrón’s Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings (Duke University Press, 2024) in earnest this summer, as Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYol” flooded New York City s…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/hzebp-b2w98 I am always listening for María: I find her most in the traces of words.

DOI; https://doi.org/10.59350/rm4mh-tmw66 I remember long car rides as a kid in the early 2000s, headphones on, gazing out the window at the passing scenery while looping background music from The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon games on my Game Boy.

Ferdinand “Freddie” Montalvo on the Binghamton community airwaves in the 1980s and in the 2020s.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/791eq-btb03 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: SO!

Distance, therefore, preserves a European austerity in recorded musical practices, and electroacoustic practice is no exception; it is perhaps even responsible for reinvigorating a colonial posterity in contemporary music as so many examples in this book…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/8b6dz-35r02 In the 2025 blockbuster Sinners, Ryan Coogler has a vampire story to tell.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/37gfe-wsr62 Dr.

**This piece is co-authored by Wanda Alarcón, Dolores Inés Casillas, Esther Díaz Martín, Sara Veronica Hinojos, and Cloe Gentile Reyes DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/381m8-qcy44 For weeks, we have been inundated with executive orders (220 at last count), a…

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/0d6a1-89×63 In March 2025, shortly after returning to the United States from Romania, where he and his brother Tristan had been held under house arrest for two years after being charged with human trafficking, rape, and formi…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/bcf0e-5mv24 I As a ’90s kid, I remember too well us school kids singing and dancing to the songs at the top of the charts on music shows such as Ingigayo (인기가요) and Music Bank (뮤직뱅크).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/912zd-n6k06 SO!

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This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month!

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith Happy Hip Hop History Month!

A Conversation by Todd Craig and LeBrandon Smith DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/3apxy-n3s67 By now, it’s safe to say very few people have not caught wind of the biggest Hip-Hop battle of the 21st century: the clash between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/4ng4j-njp62 In both sound studies and the sonic arts, the concept of “resonance” has increasingly played a central role in attuning listeners to the politics of sound.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/q1v4p-tk850 i begin with an acknowledgement of the myriad of organizers, scholars, artists, and teachers that have shaped and continue to shape the way that i think and write.

DOI: https://soundstudiesblog.com/2024/06/10/music-video-as-process-revitalize/ What is a music video, anyway?

.DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/h8bz4-5zs95 “So I have heard The Hum… The rest of what I’m about to tell you is beyond reasoning, and understanding.”

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/d5e0q-nxn56 Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

“Playback of this birds[sic] song is restricted.”

Still of the sensory map from The Pandemic Sensory Archive DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/dfpfj-rcx84 When the COVID-19 global pandemic began, news reports and studies throughout the world began citing a lot of sound-based statistics: drastic reductions in…

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/3c0kz-4m392 Usually when we celebrate our year in review, we get a little bit loud. . .okay, well, maybe we get REAL loud!

Photo of Francisco and Emma Mecija in their apartment near Parliament Street.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/s59r2-jwr11 or, Last Summer a DJ Saved My Life “Hip Hop does work that a lot of other things don’t do” Young Guru (viii).

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

***This post is co-written by Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Díaz DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/y5qq4-zt290 On the night of September 12, Colombian pop star Shakira made history as the first predominantly Spanish-language artist to be honored as MTV’s Vi…

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x.