This issue features original research that presents new and compelling sonic insights on the classical philosopher Heraclitus and an essay that advocates for an expanded discourse on sound art as a mode of sensory perception by emancipating listeners, along with research that proposes new analytic approaches for the diagramming and recasting of vocal timbres and maps in order to better understand stylistic tactics employed by artists. Also, the soundscapes of cafés are considered through an ethnographic ear in a six-plus-year study that maps the sonic management of everyday life.

For our continuing special series “The Soundwork of Media Activism,” the interdisciplinary team of guest editors and authors Jen Shook, Georgia Ennis, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Josh Shepperd have edited new work that considers how activism plays the role of both liberator and guardian for social justice in new research on the history of radio that focuses on Black women and...

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