The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen

Nathalie Aghoro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany with an interest in auditory culture, postmodern and contemporary literature, media theory, and social justice. Her book Sounding the Novel: Voice in Twenty-First Century American Fiction (2018) examines the sonic mediality of voice in the works of Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jennifer Egan, and Jonathan Safran Foer.

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction to The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen
Nathalie Aghoro, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany

Part I: Sound Practice Across Media

1. Listening in Print
Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Columbia University, USA

2. When a Poem "Sounds" Through the Body
Irene Polimante, University of Macerata, Italy

3. Practices of Unmixing: Film Aesthetics, Sound, and the New Hollywood Cinema
Christof Decker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany

Part II: Soundtracks of Collective Memory

4. Voice and Wake: Susan Howe, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the Ecology of Echology
Julius Greve, University of Oldenburg, Germany

5. Reframing Indigenous Sonic Archives: Jeremy Dutcher and the Cultural Politics of Refusal
Sabine Kim, Mainz University, Germany

6. Unsettled Scores: Listening to Black Oklahoma on the American “Frontier”
Tsitsi Jaji, Duke University, USA

Part III: Social Acoustics and Politics of Sound

7. The Operator and the Final Girl: Gender, Genre, and Black Sonic Labor in The Call
Allison Whitney, Texas Tech University, USA

8. Bohemian Like You: The Construction of Cool Sound Collectives in Serial Television
Florian Groß, Leibniz University, Germany

9. Sonic Sites of Subversion: Listening and the Politics of Place in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
Nathalie Aghoro, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany

10. From "Dead Spots" to "Hot Spots": Ann Petry’s “On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon”
Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Binghamton University, USA

Index