...Ann Cvetkovich; Ellen Waterman; Deborah Wong This coauthored essay is an invited response to Dylan Robinson’s 2021 book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. The invitation built on his original act of holding space for settler engagement in the conclusion of the book...

...Kandice Chuh This essay offers a series of meditations on the questions, What/who are we listening to? What/who are we listening for? How can we do either and both better? Thinking alongside Dylan Robinson’s enjoinder to attend to the coloniality of normative, institutional listening practices...

... of California 2024 poetry carcerality food security listening Gathering myself again for this route. These roadways were old paths out of town east and slightly south to the forested upland from the north shore floodplains. We come from a coast, rousing early in the city to get...

... since the second half of the last century is closely linked to extensive reflection on listening. Pauline Oliveros is one of the pioneers and most significant composers to contemplate this issue. Her ideas, conveyed through works, meditative practices, interviews, and texts, provide substantial material...

... the politics of listening, and not merely the sonic expressions of queer artists (i.e., it is not a series to discuss style and aesthetics alone, but specifically how these topics relate to discriminatory systems, political economies, social issues, etc.), I must take a moment to reflect on the evolving...

...Hugo Boothby This article addresses Listening with Elephant Ears , a contemporary music composition and performance created by the author together with the Elefantöra (Elephant Ear) ensemble. Elefantöra is a norm-critical music ensemble that includes both disabled and non-disabled musicians. When...

...Brian C. Gregory The mid-1930s saw broadcasters, educators, and researchers coalesce around the study and implementation of critical listening for educational radio as a new technology for school instruction. These early media literacy researchers were motivated by ambitions to counter distracted...

...Salomé Voegelin; Anna Barney; Mark Peter Wright; Phoebe Stubbs; Julian Weaver; Timothy Smith This article presents six separate but connected understandings of a digital platform of listening vocabularies and protocols produced in the context of Listening Across Disciplines II, (LxDII) a cross...

...James M. Kopf In explaining his critical practice, Theodor Reik exhorted his fellow analysts to listen with their third ears. An attempt to discern the meaning of the “third ear” confronts us with a web of associations that point ineluctably to an attempt to decenter the sense of hearing away from...

... on rhetorics of the ocular vs the aural in discussions of identity, performance, and embodiment, here transcultural and transdisciplinary connections emerge to consider listening as a technology for relationality. Their results, of course, astonish me. My own experience of making a “quick and dirty...

...Marina L. Peterson; Vicki L. Brennan We propose a sonic ethnography that focuses on listening, departing from an investigation of a soundscape to one that attends to how people listen. This, we suggest, is crucial for an anthropological approach that understands sound as processual and relational...