Many PF readers will be as surprised by finding this as I was. It's properly academic (in the more pleasant sense of the word), but also very au courant with political and cultural thinking and teaching in American universities. For whatever that's worth.
Now have at it. Their opening salvo:
Sounding Out!/ is a weekly online publication, a networked academic archive, and a dynamic group platform bringing together sound studies scholars, sound artists and professionals, and readers interested in the cultural politics of sound and listening. [Uh-oh what does that mean? / cj] Every Monday, our writers offer well-researched, well-written, and accessible interventions in sound studies, directing the field’s energy toward the social, cultural, and political aspects of sound and listening, particularly their differential construction of and material impacts on variously positioned bodies.
Sounding Out! seeks out scholarship, podcasts, art, and essays—and rhetorical re-mixes of all these elements—devoted to answering four interconnected and interlocking research questions:
How does listening impact the production of social difference? And vice versa?
What is the relationship between sound and power?
What is the role of sound and listening in everyday life, particularly in regards to identity construction and performance?
How do we understand the cultural histories of various sound media—the phonograph, the radio, the tape recorder, the telephone, the digital recorder and its various playback systems—in relationship to power and the production of social difference?
As a scholarly publication, Sounding Out! is peer-reviewed, but following an open, developmental model fostered by digital humanities [What's that mean? / cj] , in which editors and advisors are known to our writers, and provide several rounds of feedback, commentary, and collaboration before publication. The editorial collective invites contributions via themed calls-for-posts as well as on more general topics related to our research mission. We especially invite work that uses sound as more than an object of study, but also as a medium of argumentation, experience, provocation, and communication.
