I am excited to be speaking at this event on Friday June 2 on the media crosscurrents panel. My paper, titled “Music’s Unseen Body,” locates in Heart of Darkness the erotic echoes of Conrad’s experiences of listening to opera and…
www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/events-1/2017/6/12/structure
In this post for Modernism/modernity, I reflect on how how modernist scholarship can respond to the present. Source: Modernism Ungoverned
In this essay, I ask what it means to listen to women narrate the spectacle of black death. Thank you to Sounding Out! for providing a capacious forum.
The Politics of the Musical Situation: A Response to Marina Rosenfeld Julie Beth Napolin responds to sound artist Marina Rosenfeld, the essay modeled on a discussion between the two at The New School’s Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought. The dialogue touches…
I’m pleased to participate in “Techniques of the Listener,” convened by the Yale Sound Studies Working Group. We hope to write a collective essay on the proceedings. About Techniques of the Listener “Techniques of the Listener” is a two day…
Graduate Institute of Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought: Seminar with Marina Rosenfeld Respondent, Julie Beth Napolin Marina Rosenfeld presents “Surface Species – Playback and the Object.” Friday, March 4, 2016 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm University Center, 411 63 Fifth Avenue,…
The Audiophonic Form of As I Lay Dying (click to download the chapter as a PDF)
In this roundtable, we took up Keith + Mendi Obadike’s sound installation, “Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]” (2015). The 12-hour work archives the sounds of “Sonny’s Blues,” also activating relations between sound, literary voice, and city space. We discussed Baldwin…
The Eldritch Voice: H. P. Lovecraft’s Weird Phonography.
On Whiteness and Sound Studies. A timely post for Sounding Out! by Gustavus Stadler
Sonic Shadows is a two-day symposium designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars working on the topic of the voice across the fields of literature, film, theory, music, and technology. Our title, “Sonic Shadows,” is designed as a capacious point…
The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics | Blues Speaker for James Baldwin – Dialogues. Looking forward to moderating a discussion of “Blues Speaker for James Baldwin,” a new sound installation in University Center, by Mendi and Keith Obadike,…