Duke University Press Digital Sound Studies

The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines—including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science—the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive. As they demonstrate, incorporating sound into scholarship is thus not only feasible but urgently necessary. Contributors. Myron M. Beasley, Regina N. Bradley, Steph Ceraso, Tanya Clement, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden, W. F. Umi Hsu, Michael J. Kramer, Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Richard Cullen Rath, Liana M. Silva, Jonathan Sterne, Jennifer Stoever, Jonathan W. Stone, Joanna Swafford, Aaron Trammell, Whitney Trettien   Review " Digital Sound Studies ... is an excellent resource for people interested in non-conventional experiences that defy standard and mainstream methods of learning and teaching within the humanities. It invites critical thought from cultural, social, and artistic frameworks, with a sustained and sustainable focus on the potential of sound and listening."--Tracey El Hajj "Digital Humanities Quarterly" (3/8/2021 12:00:00 AM) " Digital Sound Studies is a provocation and a resource: timely in its inquiries and generative in its scope. In chapter after chapter, the reader encounters essays written in a register of experimental play, a quality which enacts a genre-bending intellectual style predicated on listening."--Joella Bitter "Technology and Culture" (1/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) "This text provides a contemporary possibility of classroom and research work that is innovative and communal. The essays in Digital Sound Studies examine how sound is contained but held in the body, held through the body but heard through institutions and a cacophony of additional casual, aural effects."--Kimberly Williams "Journal for the Society of American Music" (11/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) " Digital Sound Studies contributors prompt productive conversations even while probing assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academia. . . . These essays explore the urgency and necessity of incorporating sonic experience into scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive."--John F. Barber "Leonardo Reviews" (1/1/2019 12:00:00 AM) " Digital Sound Studies fuses theory and critical thinking with creative sonic practices, a fusion that is both promising and very appealing."--Vincent Meelberg "Journal of Sonic Studies" (1/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) " Digital Sound Studies offers a fascinating variety of perspectives on digital sound studies ... Works that link digital humanities and sound studies are somewhat rare, and the present volume is a rich addition to a growing body of knowledge. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."--M. Anderson "Choice" (4/1/2019 12:00:00 AM) Review “This much-needed book inaugurates a new and interdisciplinary field—digital sound studies—at the intersection of sound studies and digital humanities. Its contributors rigorously explore a wide array of methodologies and practices—pedagogy, archival work, computational analysis, deformation, and platform building—to mark out the possibiliti