Sound Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2020)

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Special Issue: Sonic Things: Knowledge Formation in Flux

Introduction

Introduction
Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux
Viktoria Tkaczyk & Leendert van der Miesen
Pages: 105-113
Published online: 08 Sep 2020
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Articles

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“My ancestors welling in me”: sound and silence in the Salt Lake Tabernacle
John Durham Peters
Pages: 114-129
Published online: 28 Jul 2020
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How to turn interior monologues inside out: epistemologies, methods, and research tools in the long twentieth century
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Pages: 130-152
Published online: 08 Sep 2020
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Tuning forks as time travel machines: pitch standardisation and historicism
Fanny Gribenski
Pages: 153-173
Published online: 08 Sep 2020
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Cooking pots, tableware, and the changing sounds of sociability in Italy, 1300–1700
Flora Dennis
Pages: 174-195
Published online: 19 Aug 2020
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Studying the echo in the early modern period: between the academy and the natural world
Leendert van der Miesen
Pages: 196-214
Published online: 08 Sep 2020
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Songbird and birdsong: Listening to the finches in the Harz region, Germany
Tiago de Oliveira Pinto
Pages: 215-238
Published online: 14 Sep 2020
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How the sheng became a harp
Carmel Raz
Pages: 239-256
Published online: 31 Aug 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The sonic episteme: acoustic resonance, neoliberalism, and biopolitics
by Robin James. Duke University Press: Durham and London, 2019, 245 pages. $26.95(PB), 978-1-4780-0664-0
Madeleine Collier
Pages: 257-270
Published online: 07 Jun 2020
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Inscriptive instruments: emergent sonic technologies from the analog to the digital
Sonic writing: technologies of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions by Thor Magnusson, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 304 pp., $33.17 (paperback), ISBN 978-1501313868.
David C. Jackson
Pages: 260-263
Published online: 15 Apr 2020
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Animal Musicalities: birds, beasts, and evolutionary listening
by Rachel Mundy, Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 2018, 261 pp., $29.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780819578068
Jacob A. Cohen
Pages: 263-265
Published online: 05 Mar 2020
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A textbook social history of musical media technology
Sounds, screens, speakers: an introduction to music and media, by Charles Fairchild, New York and London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 400 pp., £88.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-50133-624-9, £23.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-50133-623-2
Jacob Kingsbury Downs
Pages: 265-268
Published online: 22 May 2020
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Half a Million Strong: “forgotten” festivals punch through Arnold’s critical history of festivals
Half a Million Strong: crowds and power from Woodstock to Coachella, by Gina Arnold, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2018, 216 pp., $19.95 (paperback). IBSN 978-1-60938-608-5
Elizabeth Navarra Varnado
Pages: 268-270
Published online: 23 Jul 2020
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Sound Reviews

Article
The Chicago sound show at the smart museum of art, the University of Chicago
Ryan Dohoney
Pages: 271-274
Published online: 11 Feb 2020
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Electronic music history reloaded: Ishkur’s online “Guide to electronic music 3.0”
Ishkur Guide to Electronic Music, by Kenneth John Taylor,
Guillaume Heuguet
Pages: 275-279
Published online: 07 Aug 2020
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