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‘Corn-ing’ the Suburbs on Halloween, a Sonic Trick and Treat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/vyrdf-50936 It was a crisp Saturday night in late-October. I was probably seven or eight. My brother and I were sitting on the couch watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin,...
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El Llanto Against I.C.E.: Toward a Latinx Sonic Phenomenology of the...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/xgm8r-acg57 It is July 4, 2025. The air is hot; the sun is beaming on concrete and asphalt. Sweat is accumulating on my cotton Disrupt band t-shirt. My skin is sticky....
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And you will know us by the sound of vuvuzelas
Despite some stunning matchups, the news story of the 2010 World Cup has undoubtedly been the vuvuzela. While there have been valiant efforts to the contrary (see Jennifer Doyle’s article in The...
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“Just for a Few Hours, We Was Free”: The Blues and Mapping Freedom in Sinners...
In the 2025 blockbuster Sinners, Ryan Coogler has a vampire story to tell. But before he can begin, he needs to tell another story—a blues one. Sinners opens with a voiceover thesis statement...
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Listening to MAGA Politics within US/Mexico’s Lucha Libre
This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@. Xi-can-x. Funded by...
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The Sound of What Becomes Possible: Language Politics and Jesse Chun’s 술래...
“To this day I think about all the strange words I missed out on, all the losses I’m still carrying from faraway…I still think of the time when I spoke one language, and that language was whole.” Chun...
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Mapping the Music in Ukraine’s Resistance to the 2022 Russian Invasion
24.02. Boy playing piano in Kharkiv, still from wleaming‘s video by author Note: To see these tweets and videos embedded on an interactive map, click here. In the late morning of February 24th, 2022,...
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Listening in Plain Sight: The Enduring Influence of U.S. Air Guitar
The mention of “air guitar” might conjure images of the Bill and Ted series. Or Risky Business. Or maybe even Joe Cocker at Woodstock. You might think of air guitar as an embarrassing fan gesture. So...
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The Sound of Feminist Snap, or Why I Interrupted the 2018 SEM Business Meeting
I begin this essay with an apology, addressed to the Society for Ethnomusicology President Gregory Barz: I am sorry that I interrupted your opening remarks at least year’s SEM Business meeting. In the...
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Sonic Salvation: A Story of How Listening Can Change Over A Lifetime
By the age of six, I could circumscribe my world in song. I was not particularly precocious — my world was just small. Ultimately, it would be fractured by its own rebellious genesis. Two genres of...
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“How Many Latinos are in this Motherfucking House?”: DJ Irene, Sonic...
How Many Latinos are in this Motherfucking House? –DJ Irene At the Arena Nightclub in Hollywood, California, the sounds of DJ Irene could be heard on any given Friday in the 1990s. Arena, a 4000-foot...
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Listening to the Beautiful Game: The Sounds of the 2018 World Cup
I heard them before I saw them. Walking to my apartment in Moscow’s Tverskoy District, I noticed a pulsating mass of sound in the distance. Turning the corner, I found a huge swath of light blue and...
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Becoming Sound: Tubitsinakukuru from Mt. Scott to Standing Rock
In the Numu tekwapuha, the Comanche language: Haa ma ruawe, haa nu haitsi. Nu nahnia tsa Dustin Tahmahkera. In this post, I talk about the phrase “becoming sound,” and also gesture to several examples...
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The Listening Body in Death
Editors’ note: As a discipline Sound Studies is unique in its scope—under its purview we find the science of acoustics, cultural representation through the auditory, and, to perhaps mis-paraphrase...
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St Erkenwald: The Spectacle of Noise
series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman Here is a distilled introduction to the latest installment of Medieval Sound, Aural Ecology, by series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman....
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(Dis)orienting the Bell: Aural Assault from A Game of Thrones to Richard Coer...
series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman Hear YE! Below is the introduction to the latest installment of Medieval Sound, Aural Ecology, by series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #54: The Sound of Magic
Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in The Sound Studies Reader, “comes to the...
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Mouthing the Passion: Richard Rolle’s Soundscapes
Each of the essays in this month’s “Medieval Sound” forum focuses on sound as it, according to Steve Goodman’s essay “The Ontology of Vibrational Force,” in The Sound Studies Reader, “comes to the...
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LMGM’s “Lost: Choirboy”& El Jefe’s “Muñoz & La Mission: A Sermon. . .” (in...
Come, let us sing of great men. Well, just one man, not men—and masculine gender is not essential for our purposes. Come to think of it, his greatness isn’t nearly as important as his fierceness, his...
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Karaoke and Ventriloquism: Echoes and Divergences
This piece is co-authored by Sarah Kessler and Karen Tongson. Scholarship rarely happens in isolation, despite quantitative demands in the humanities for “single-authored” works. Instead, intimacies of...
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