Announcement of national conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress, February 25-27, 2016.
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Tags: #RPTF, academic conference, Alan Lomax, Christopher Sterling, Library of Congress, media history, National Recording Preservation Board, NPR, Pacifica, prometheus radio, public radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, smithsonian, smithsonian folklife, sound studies, studs terkel, third coast
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Josh Shepperd provides Part 1 of 2 to his final entry in the "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series with an examination of Michele Hilmes' contributions to discursive analysis.
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Tags: Birmingham School, communication arts, consumer activism, cultural theory, Discourse, discursive analysis, Douglas Gomery, drift literacy, Habermas, hegemony, historiography, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, madison mafia, Media and Cultural Studies, media literacy, media studies, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, public, public sphere, publics, radio voices, Richard Hoggart, sound studies, Stuart Hall, transnational
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In the first post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Bill Kirkpatrick argues that the quality of Michele Hilmes’ scholarship is undisputed, yet the example of her great work alone is not why Radio Studies is now thriving. It is also because Hilmes has done the (arguably much harder) work of field-building.
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Tags: Disciplinarity, Field-building, historiography, media history, media studies, Michele Hilmes, radio, radio studies, sound studies
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Alex Russo previews the radio oriented papers, workshops, and presentations at this week's upcoming Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Montreal.
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Tags: podcasting, radio, radio studies, SCMS, SCMS Radio Studies Scholarly Interest Group, Serial, sound studies
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Kyle Barnett reports on last week's IASPM-US 2015 annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Tags: academia, conference report, IASPM-US, interdisciplinarity, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Louisville, popular music, Slint, sound studies, Stuart Hall
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The From Mercury to Mars series continues today with a new post from Murray Pomerance about Orson Welles' voice.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Citizen Kane, F for Fake, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Neil Verma, Orson Welles, performance, radio studies, sound studies, voice, War of the Worlds
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David Suisman provides a report from Functional Sounds, the first international conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA), which was held in Berlin from October 4-6, 2013.
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Tags: auditory culture, ESSA, European Sound Studies Association, Interference, Journal of Sonic Studies, media studies, Society for Social Studies of Science, Sound Effects, sound studies
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The Editorial Board of The Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline for its forthcoming "On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)" issue to September 1. In particular, VLT seeks sound-related research that addresses issues and topics in radio, television, video games, digital/new media, and other non-film media. Read on for the CFP.
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Tags: film, new media, radio, sound studies, television, Velvet Light Trap, video games
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If Atmos or a similar system were to become the industry standard, questions arise as to how its potential aesthetic might shape the way films sound and look.
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Tags: Aesthetics, Digital Cinema Package, Digital Surround Sound, Disney, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, film sound, movie theaters, sound studies
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The coordinating editors of The Velvet Light Trap are seeking submissions for a forthcoming issue that explores new directions in sound studies.
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Tags: film sound, popular music, radio, sound studies, television sound, Velvet Light Trap
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As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, cultural studies, cultural turn, Elihu Katz, encoding/decoding, genre, Gordon Allport, Hadley Cantril, historical poetics, Jason Mittell, John Caldwell, John Fiske, John Hartley, Julie D'Acci, Lynn Spigel, media aesthetics, media studies, Narrative Complexity, Office of Radio Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, performance studies, Personal Influence, production studies, Psychology of Radio, radio studies, Raymond Williams, reception studies, Robert Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, Rudolf Arnheim, SCMS, semiotics, sound studies, Stuart Hall, television studies, textual analysis
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