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Exploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound

"The Sound Studies Reader is a groundbreaking anthology blending recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' with earlier and lesser known scholarship on sound. The collection begins with an introduction to welcome novice readers to the field and acquaint them with key themes and concepts in sound studies. Individual section introductions give readers further background on the essays and an extensive up to date bibliography for further reading in 'sound studies' make this an original and accessible guide to the field"--

Introduction: talking books / Matthew Rubery -- The three-minute Victorian novel: remediating Dickens into sound / Jason Camlot -- A library on the air: literary dramatization and Orson Welles's mercury theatre / James Jesson -- The audiographic impulse: doing literature with the tape recorder / Jesper Olsson -- Poetry by phone and phonograph: tracing the influence of Giorno poetry systems / Michael S. Hennessey -- Soundtracking the novel: Willy Vlautin's Northline as filmic audiobook / Justin St. Clair -- Novelist as "sound-thief": the audiobooks of John le Carr / Garrett Stewart -- Hearing Hardy, talking Tolstoy: the audiobook narrator's voice and reader experience / Sara Knox -- Talking books, Toni Morrison, and the transformation of narrative authority: two frameworks / K. C. Harrisson -- Obama's voices: performance and politics on The dreams from my father audiobook / Jeffrey Severs -- Bedtime storytelling revisited: Le pere castor and children's audiobooks / Brigitte Ouvry-Vial -- Learning from librivox / Michael Hancher -- A preliminary phenomenology of the audiobook / D. E. Wittkower

Soundscape : sound, space, and listening -- Noise : from the everyday to the exceptional -- Voice : hearing and ascribing individual and social identity -- Sound on the page : echoes and resonances in writing -- Sound design/designing sounds : intentionally crafted sonic worlds -- Sound art : what is sound? Debates and examples -- Concluding exercise : putting the pieces together through audio narratives.

Climate change and overlapping global health emergencies manifest as complexly interwoven problems that are at once cultural, economic, social and political. They can be identified as "wicked problems" (Popper 1963, Rittel&Webber 1973),"because of the incomplete knowledge of effects and interdependencies, because it involves actors operating in different sectors and at different levels, because all possible actions have uncertain effects, and because they are intertwined with other problems in complex and, to a large extent, unmanageable systems" (Shiefloe 2020, p5). Such wicked problems appeal to abandon disciplinary specialisms and to instead work trans- and inter-disciplinarily. I propose that they appeal for Sound Studies as a study of culture, society, politics, and so on, from the relational logic and connecting capacity of listening, to hear entanglements and co-dependencies and contribute to their understanding. This talk will speculate on this suggestion. It will try to conceptualise such a Sound Studies as a discipline that does not exist, that is not-disciplined, but that interlopes with every discipline, embedding itself to work across, and developing novel methodologies to let us see the world through its interdependencies.