Digital Sound Studies

"Digital Sound Studies contributors prompt productive conversations even while probing assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academia. . . . These essays explore the urgency and necessity of incorporating sonic experience into scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive." - John F. Barber (Leonardo Reviews) "Digital Sound Studies offers a fascinating variety of perspectives on digital sound studies ... Works that link digital humanities and sound studies are somewhat rare, and the present volume is a rich addition to a growing body of knowledge. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - M. Anderson (Choice) "Digital Sound Studies fuses theory and critical thinking with creative sonic practices, a fusion that is both promising and very appealing." - Vincent Meelberg (Journal of Sonic Studies) "This text provides a contemporary possibility of classroom and research work that is innovative and communal. The essays in Digital Sound Studies examine how sound is contained but held in the body, held through the body but heard through institutions and a cacophony of additional casual, aural effects." - Kimberly Williams (Journal for the Society of American Music) "Digital Sound Studies ... is an excellent resource for people interested in non-conventional experiences that defy standard and mainstream methods of learning and teaching within the humanities. It invites critical thought from cultural, social, and artistic frameworks, with a sustained and sustainable focus on the potential of sound and listening." - Tracey El Hajj (Digital Humanities Quarterly) "Digital Sound Studies is a provocation and a resource: timely in its inquiries and generative in its scope. In chapter after chapter, the reader encounters essays written in a register of experimental play, a quality which enacts a genre-bending intellectual style predicated on listening." - Joella Bitter (Technology and Culture)