The second meeting of the Sound Studies Working Group we will be held on Wednesday, November 15, from 1 – 3 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall (on the corner of College and Wall).

We will be discussing Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening. The introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 5 are available below:

Stoever, Sonic Color Line (intro, ch1, ch5)

The session will be lead by Prof. Brian Kane (Music).

We will have plenty of food and drink and conversation. All are welcome to attend. Join us!

The first meeting of Yale’s Sound Studies Working Group will be held on Wednesday, October 25, from 1-3 PM in 107 Stoeckel Hall (located on the corner of College and Wall).

On the agenda, we will read the introduction and two essays from a recent issue of Parallax (vol. 23, no. 3, 2017) on the theme “Sounding/Thinking,” edited by James Lavender.

Here are links to the issue:

James Lavender, Introduction Sounding Thinking

Marie Thompson, Whiteness and the Ontological Turn in Sound Studies

Mickey Vallee, Possibility Performance Politics On the Voice and Transformation

Anyone and everyone with an interest is sound studies is encouraged to attend, even if you haven’t completed the readings. (And there will be food.) Join us!