#SoundStudies
The world's first electric #megaphone was invented in Japan in 1954 by TOA Corporation.

#portablesound #amplification #japan #soundbeyondmusic #soundstudies
September 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
In this episode you'll learn

• Why anonymity has a long history in music
• How celebrity culture transformed listening
• Anonymous traditions in folk and electronic music

#AnonymousMusic
#MusicPhilosophy
#SoundStudies

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【Sound Without Instruction: The Politics of Anonymity】Series: “Studies in Sonic Structure”
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June 19, 2026 at 9:39 PM
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Hi Bluesky, I made it! Looking for friends and colleagues. #c18 #DisabilityStudies #LGBTQStudies #SoundStudies
July 22, 2023 at 7:44 PM
This is the kind of email we academics live for.

#academicChatter #academia #soundStudies #commsky
October 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Huge congratulations to all editors and authors on this exciting new special issue! 🥳
#gamestudies #ludomusicology #musicology #gameaudio #vgm #gamedev #indiedev #soundstudies
The last issue of the 𝐉𝐒𝐌𝐆 is now available! You can't miss this special volume on the sound and music of Hades, wonderfully edited by Christopher Hill, Stephanie Lind, @ssmw.bsky.social and Demetrius Shahmehri. Check it out: online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/issue/6/1 #hades #vgm #ludomusicology #gamemusic
February 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
What if Paleolithic rock art wasn’t just meant to be seen—but heard?

New post on sound, echo, and why some caves may have mattered because they answered back.
Measured acoustics, not mysticism.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/deephist...

#Archaeology #DeepHistory #RockArt #SoundStudies
When the Caves Answer Back: Sound, Rock Art, and the Deep History of Listening
When we think about Paleolithic rock art, we tend to think with our eyes.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:52 AM
"If humans could perceive the ultrasonic range, rat chirruping would be as much the sound of New York as sparrows, starlings, and traffic." #soundstudies #ratscapes #ultrasound
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February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Our special issue in the Journal of Literature and Science, the Sound of Nature project’s main output, is now out in open access: www.literatureandscience.org/volume-17-nu... #envhist #envhum #literature #soundstudies
Volume 17, Number 2 (2024) | Journal of Literature and Science
www.literatureandscience.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thank you so much for inviting me to Erlangen! I had a most amazing afternoon with exciting questions of a great audience! #SoundStudies #Dickens #CLS
Svenja Guhr is diving deep into the decision tree that accompanied the annotation process within her 🔊 "Raise your voice" project!

more info here: svenjaguhr.github.io/book-proj.html

@guhrs.bsky.social
@dhssfau.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Find out who we are, what we do + how to visit our museum in 2 minutes flat:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieUQ...

(You can also visit us online! Book visits NOW at museumofportablesound.com/visit)

#museum #soundmuseum #listening #soundstudies
What Is the Museum of Portable Sound?
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September 23, 2026 at 9:48 AM
The latest issue went out last night, June 11 #soundstudies
June 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
CfP: #Ludo2026 will take place 6 – 8 August, 2026, at Edge Hill University. The 15th anniversary conference theme is ‘Pushing limits and crossing borders’.
Please find all info here: www.ludomusicology.org/2025/11/16/l...

#ludomusicology #gamestudies #gamesound #gameaudio #vgm #music #soundstudies
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Joshua Dittrich explores the material and metaphorical geology of the sonic environment in ‘Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes’ sonicfield.org/geosonics/ #soundstudies #soundscape #geology
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Congratulations to Alexis McGee whose book FROM BLUES TO BEYONCÉ has won the 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, presented by the @cfshrc.bsky.social

#WinnerWednesday #4C26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc42spn6

#BlackFeminism #SoundStudies #RhetoricAndComposition
March 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
What does it mean to ‘stay’ in a place, and how can sound capture that experience? 🎧 Dr. Dominik Kremer and @andreaswagnr.bsky.social guided us through Tracing Qualities of Stay, exploring voice recordings tied to place and presence.

#DHSS2025 #SoundStudies #Linguistics #PlaceAndSpace
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
She's here. 💜🎙️
My first solo book, Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork, is officially out with @uofmpress.bsky.social

Read the Q&A here: press.umich.edu/Blog/2026/07...

#OpenAccess #SoundStudies #RadioStudies #FeministMediaStudies #Podcasting #QueerAuthors
Q&A with Lavender Sounds Author Stacey Copeland
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July 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Still on a high from a beautiful eve celebrating Women of Folkways! Huge gratitude to all: Northern Lights Folk Club + their amazing volunteers, Soundstudies (UofA) & esp these wonderful, powerful musicians/songwriters onstage: Darla Daniels, Pamela Mae & show producer Dana Wylie! 📷️ Jack Bawden
March 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Hey all, #Sound and #Detention is out on THURSDAY!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...
If you happen to be in Oslo on January 19th, at 12:30 do come to our bokbad to celebrate! Please share, particularly those of you interested in #prison studies and #sociology, #Musicology, #SoundStudies...
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Geographies of the Ear" by Tania Gentic, which examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. #SpanishStudies #SoundStudies
Geographies of the Ear
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September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We're pleased to make available an #OpenAccess chapter of Soundin' Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship, by Paul db Watkins. Click the download link at www.wlupress.wlu.ca/... to read Overture: DJ Methodology: Resounding the Past #BlackHistoryMonth #soundstudies #poetry
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
‘Bodies of Sound’ does a huge contribution to sound studies with 220 pages in which dozens of feminist voices speak, encounter, resonate and radically listen. Edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin and just published by Silver Press sonicfield.org/bodies-of-so... #soundstudies #feminism
November 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM