Sound studies, as Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld wrote in 2004, “is an emerging interdisciplinary area that studies the material production and consumption of music,…
Composing Paradoxes | Feminist Process in Sound Arts and Experimental Musics
Category: Chapter 1 | Hierarchies of Difference
Feminist sound studies scholar Tara Rodgers expands upon Jonathan Sterne’s critical analysis of the original/copy dialectic embedded within sound reproduction technologies as those that have…
Excluded as she was from political intelligibility within historical continental discourses of individuality (Scott 1996), “woman” throughout Anglo-American histories of sound and music has similarly…
Hegemonic discourses and power relations which sought to write women as a category out of musical history have been met with numerous attempts by feminist…
Through what Ellen Koskoff identifies as a ‘second-wave’ of feminist musicology and ethnomusicology, is scholarship that has sought to question productions of gender through productions…
Whilst Tara Rodgers’ and Jonathan Sterne’s work in particular seeks to historicise sound reproduction technologies and audio-technical discourses by charting their shifting histories, the question…
At the fourteenth international New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference of 2014, Georgina Born organised and chaired a panel/workshop titled Gender, Education, Creativity in…
The displacement and transformation of orthodox beliefs is a major strategy within much post-structural theory, within feminism and queer theory as much as within post-colonial…
Ellen Koskoff’s reflection upon the main ‘phases’ of feminist musicology as ‘woman-centric’ and ‘gender-centric’, provides a useful paradigm through which to think about the two…
In a way that speaks to Georgina Born’s assertion that an “analytics of mediation…encompasses and addresses conceptually the kinds of difference and antagonism that routinely…
Turning to the recent disdain within some narrations of queer feminism for interpretation and paranoid critique in favour of a ‘newer’ reparative turn, Robyn Wiegman…