[Linganth] CFP: Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture: Special Issue on: The Soundwork of Media Activism

[Ennis, Georgia C.]

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Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture Call for Papers<https://online.ucpress.edu/res/pages/submit>


Special Issue on: The Soundwork of Media Activism


This Special Issue of Resonance calls for papers, commentaries, theories, and archival finding aids that examine the implementation of “soundwork” in historical and contemporary forms of media activism. By soundwork we call upon Michele Hilmes’ definition, as “creative/constructed texts that employ basic sonic elements of speech, music, and noise, in relation to but different than music.” When considered as a component of activist strategy, research into soundwork helps to elucidate the sonic dimensions of efforts to assert and reclaim control over the cultural, historical, and technological legacies of human expression as organized struggle, as well as ongoing contests over the management and meaning of systems of contemporary cultural production. Calling upon Charles Hale and Shan Mukhtar, we define activism as methods through which social, cultural, and political agents have “aligned to allow dialogue to shape each phase of the process” (Hale) of social change, while “intentionally embracing discomfort and risk in order to organize for a larger ethical purpose” (Muhktar). We argue that soundwork plays and has always played a central and under-examined role in political activism, taking many forms from community organizing radio broadcasts, to the sounds of a protest, to tactile performative disruptions of sensory spaces, to non- lexemic transmission of meaning in everyday life.


This issue’s Guest Editor panel is comprised of collaborating scholars from History, Performance Studies, Anthropology, and Film and Media Studies. We strongly support pluralistic research, and are interested in interdisciplinary, multi-methodological, and creative works that engage the question of activism and soundwork across local, national, and transnational contexts that cover issues in race, gender, orientation, class, embodiment, and public participation. We are open to proposals to submit short interviews with sound artists and activists, please contact Resonance (resonance at ucpress.edu<mailto:resonance at ucpress.edu>) to pitch ideas.


Paper submissions should not exceed 10,000 words, including citations and footnotes. Commentaries and finding aids should not exceed 1,200 words.


Priority for possible inclusion in the special issue will be given to submissions received by June 30, 2020. Submissions not selected for inclusion in the special issue may be considered for future issues of the journal. Submissions should be emailed to resonance at ucpress.edu<mailto:resonance at ucpress.edu> with Media Activism Special Issue in the subject line.


Papers might examine:

  *   Sound Archives, Preservation, and Visibility Research
  *   Radio Broadcasts
  *   Memory and Nostalgia
  *   Noise
  *   Audio Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights
  *   Environmental Sound and Activism
  *   Listening and Surveillance
  *   Sound Orientation and Embodiment
  *   Sound in Public History and Shared Authority
  *   Storytelling Traditions/Repertoire
  *   The Role of Sound in Ideological Reproduction
  *   Performance and Privacy
  *   Sound installation
  *   Networks, Sound and Media Activism
  *   Sounds of Protest
  *   Soundscapes & Sound design
  *   Gaps in Audio Archival History
  *   Soundwork documenting marginalized communities
  *   Sound Resistance

This issue is connected to the upcoming Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force conference, a project of the National Recording Preservation Board. The RPTF supports preservation, access, and research of grass roots and activist voices that promote cultural visibility and recognition. The conference meets October 22, 23, and 24 at the Library of Congress. This year’s theme is: “Century of Broadcasting: Preservation and Renewal.”





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Dr. Georgia Ennis, Junior Visiting Fellow
Center for the Humanities & Information
Penn State University
http://georgiaennis.com
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