Futuring Scholarly Expression Through Sound, Sound Design, and Music: A Listening Session with Liner Notes

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session brings together scholar-artists publishing in emerging formats that leverage sound, sound design, and music for scholarly expression, communication, and argumentation. These formats include academic music albums, multimodal web texts, audio papers, podcasts, and video across fields such as Black girlhood studies, hip-hop studies, sound studies, higher education, and English education. The goal of this session is to accelerate the expansion of such genres by giving attendees a direct sensorial experience with exemplars. As such, this session is organized as a listening session with liner notes. This session is designed for scholars and scholar-artists who have a growing sense of uneasiness about rigid formats of scholarly publishing and communication – and wonder if another way is possible.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Emery Marc Petchauer, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Ruth Nicole Brown, Michigan State University

Papers

• lovenloops: Time, Sound, Music and Black Girlhood - Blair Ebony Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Curriculum of the Mind: Research as Performance and Community-Based Artistry - Stevie D. Johnson, The Ohio State University

• Time Stretching Memory: Haunting, Unforgetting, and Sound Design in the Audio Essay - Brian Mooney, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• Crate Missions and the Hip Hop Producer’s Ear: Listening, Legacy, and Beat-Making as Archival Practice - Jason D. Rawls, The Ohio State University

• Sound Smeared Across the Page: Opacity and Black Aesthetic Creation - Ruth Nicole Brown, Michigan State University; Emery Marc Petchauer, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussants

• Lalitha Vasudevan, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Haeny S. Yoon, Teachers College, Columbia University