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By Lawrence Kramer, author of Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of BeingOn the two-hundredth anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which premiered on May 7th, 1824, The New York Times ran an opinion piece on the work by the distinguished pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. The next day Beet...

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops...

By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late seventeenth century. The science of the time launched a concerted effort to discover what made living bodies, particu...

By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. I examine film circulation and its effect ...

Resonance is delighted to be welcoming three new associate editors to the journal’s editorial team. This is the first of a series of blog interviews with the new associate editors. In this inaugural post, Resonance Co-Editor Jay Needham interviews incoming Associate Editor Josh Shepperd. ...

By Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening Sound in recent years has escaped its traditionally subordinate relationship to sight and become the object of widespread interest. Sound Studies is a flourishing field. But much of the work done under this r...

The past year was marked by upheaval and activism. And it was marked by sound. From our collectively heightened awareness of birdsong to chants calling for abolition, 2020 was a year defined by aural crisis and calls for justice. A special issue of Resonance, “The Soundwork of Media Activ...

Judy Dunaway is an artist and educator whose new article, “The Forgotten 1979 Museum of Modern Art Sound Art Exhibition” was featured in the debut edition of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. She is known for performance-based multimedia exhibitions using balloons as sound ...

Reels of tapes containing sound effects that Thomas Lopez recorded in Morocco. Photo taken in the ZBS studio, August 2018. Jacob Smith’s “Travels with Jack: ZBS’s Post-Network Radio Adventure” was published in the inaugural issue of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture. The arti...

We are pleased to be able to announce the publication of the first issue of Resonance: the Journal of Sound and Culture. We invite you to read the inaugural issue for free for a limited time. Resonance is an interdisciplinary, international peer reviewed journal that features r...