Upcoming Events

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Voice and Listening Reading Group with Rajni Shah

March 29th, 2023

Rajni Shah is a performance maker, writer, and researcher. Their first monograph – Experiments in Listening – was published in the Performance Philosophy book series in 2021. It effects a shift that provides a key thematic thread of this special issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies, one that interweaves all the contributions in different...

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Popular Music: Demo tapes

March 29th, 2023

In this forthcoming session, five members of the Popular Music Research cluster will present short “work-in-progress” presentations. Find out more in the talk blurbs and speaker bio notes below. . Sam Coley (BCU) Get Things Done: The Commodification of David Bowie in 1983 1983 was a pivotal point in the career of musician David Bowie,...

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Tom Western – Covered Mouths Still Have Voices (reading group discussion)

April 4th, 2023

You are warmly invited to a reading group to discuss a new essay by Tom Western (UCL Geography): ‘Covered Mouths Still Have Voices’. This is part of a series of events to celebrate the launch of the special issue ‘Voice and Listening: Techniques for Political Life’, newly published in the Journal of Sonic Studies. The...

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