Audio Ethnographies of Water from Latin America: Confluences of the Domestic
Much of the water that enters homes in metro Guadalajara, Jalisco is toxic. Water from the tap is used to wash dishes and water plants, but for decades…
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Audio Ethnographies of Water from Latin America: Aquatic Attractions
Forty years ago, four hippos arrived in Colombia. Drug trafficker Pablo Escobar illegally imported them as part of his project to build an open-door zoo at Hacienda Naples,…
Audio Ethnographies of Water from Latin America: Water, Energy, and Youth in the Orinoco River, Colombia
July is part of the heavy rainfall season of South America’s northernmost savannas, known since colonial times as the Llanos (Plains/Grasslands) and, more recently, from a biogeographical perspe…
Audio Ethnographies of Water from Latin America: Introduction
Inspired by Feld’s (2015) work on sound, in this collection of essays, we bring five ethnographers from Latin America to think about their research through the sounds of…
Ben Tausig on his book, Bangkok is Rising
Interview by Mack Hagood https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bangkok-is-ringing-9780190847524 Mack Hagood: Bangkok is Ringing brings us into the center of the Red Shirt protests in Bangkok during…
Hearing the Unknown: Case Studies in Cuba and Taiwan
The saga of mysterious sounds afflicting US diplomats in Cuba—and more recently China–has appeared in the US news cycle intermittently over the last couple of years. Since 2017,…
Mack Hagood on his new book, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hush Interview by Jacob Smith Jacob Smith: Hush offers a strikingly original take on the history of devices and practices that offer control over the sonic environment. As…
Interview: Sonic Rupture by Jordan Lacey
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the…
Sounding Board– A Collective Exhibition
If you happen to be in Austin, make sure to visit the exciting–and first ever–Sounding Board collective installation curated by Leonardo Cardoso. The exhibition is the first of…
Provoke! A Special Collection of Digital Sound Studies
Cross-posted on Innovating Communication in Scholarship Provoke! published its first online collection of sonic scholarship, making scholarly communication just a little noisier. As the editors write…