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An Immigrant's Story Through Song
Jasmin Gamez, a recent master's graduate in Public Administration from the School of Public Policy, interviews her mom Otilia Gamez about her three favorite songs and how they represent her life. Otilia Gamez originally grew up in Mexicali, Mexico. She first migrated to the United States in the...
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Key Words in Sound
Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) pushes at the boundaries of ‘sound studies’ through its intellectual overviews and suggested openings on each of the key words. In this podcast we speak to the book’s editors David...
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Music and Society
This podcast explores how music is perceived in conservative societies like Yemen. Through Ahmed's journey of learning and making music, we try to understand the cultural, social and the religious constraints of playing and making music and how these constraints are connected to people's...
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The Philosophy of Auditory Perception
A discussion about auditory perception with Nick Young, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of Time, University of Milan.Nick explains his claims that we do not, philosophically speaking, ever perceive what are commonly thought of as 'sounds' and also that we are capable of…
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Transsiberian Blind
The most unusual expedition to Transsiberian railway was organised by British anthropologist Maurice Fitzmaurice in the 1920s: a daring scientific campaign, which had a disastrous end and mysterious consequences. Keen to capture the unique soundscape of the newly built gargantuan railroad from...
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The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity
The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (University of Illinois Press, 2017) by James G. Mansell brings forward the opportunity to hear modernity and examine how sound shaped the selves of Britons in an age of economic, social and political upheaval. Industrial and technological sounds...
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Eco-Sonic Media
Can we have sound media that is ecologically sound? Can we fine tune our media production and consumption habits to a greener key? How can an environmental perspective on sound media contribute to our understanding of how media culture is involved in the ecological crisis? These are just some of...
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Mismatched Women
Jennifer Fleeger‘s Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine (Oxford University Press, 2014) tells the story of women in film and their representation as aberrations, but also as moments of emancipation and agency. Fleeger’s book discusses exceptional voices such as Kate Smith, known...
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Sonic Rupture
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 functional noises of the city as solely problematic or unaesthetic annoyances to be eliminated,...
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