DIGITAL EDITED BY SOUND MARY CATON LINGOLD DARREN MUELLER STUDIES & WHITNEY TRETTI EN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/digitalsoundstudOOunse DIG UAL SOUND STUDIES DIGITAL SOUND STUDIES Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien duke university press • Durham and London • 2018 © 2018 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper oc Designed by Matthew Tauch Typeset in Quadraat by BW&A Books, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lingold, Mary Caton, [date] editor. | Mueller, Darren, [date] editor. | Trettien, Whitney Anne, editor. Title: Digital sound studies / edited by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018003694 (print) | lccn 2018008824 (ebook) I isbn 9780822371991 (ebook) | ISBN 9780822370482 (hardcover : alk. paper) | isbn 9780822370604 (pbk.: alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Digital humanities. | Sound—Recording and reproducing—Digital techniques. | Sound. | Sound in mass media. Classification: lcc AZ105 (ebook) | lcc az 105 .D55 2018 (print) | DDC 001.30285—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.l0c.g0v/2018003694 Cover art: Heather Gordon, Frequencies of the Equal Tempered Scale, 2017. 30" x 30". Oil on canvas. Photo by Alex Maness CONTENTS Vii PREFACE xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS i Introduction Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien I THEORIES AND GENEALOGIES 29 1 Ethnodigital Sonics and the Historical Imagination Richard Cullen Rath 47 2 Performing Zora: Critical Ethnography, Digital Sound, and Not Forgetting Myron M. Beasley 64 3 Rhetorical Folkness: Reanimating Walter J. Ong in the Pursuit of Digital Humanity Jonathan W. Stone II DIGITAL COMMUNITIES 83 4 The Pleasure (Is) Principle: Sounding Out! and the Digitizing of Community Aaron Trammell, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, and Liana Silva 120 5 Becoming OutKasted: Archiving Contemporary Black Southernness in a Digital Age Regina N. Bradley 130 6 Reprogramming Sounds of Learning: Pedagogical Experiments with Critical Making and Community-Based Ethnography W. F. Umi Hsu III DISCIPLINARY TRANSLATIONS 155 7 Word. Spoken. Articulating the Voice for High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarhip (HiPSTAS) Tanya E. Clement 178 8 “A Foreign Sound to Your Ear”: Digital Image Sonification for Historical Interpretation Michael J. Kramer 215 9 Augmenting Musical Arguments: Interdisciplinary Publishing Platforms and Augmented Notes Joanna Swafford IV POINTS FORWARD 231 10 Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment Rebecca Dowd Geojjfroy-Schwinden 250 11 Sound Practices for Digital Humanities Steph Ceraso 267 afterword. Demands of Duration: The Futures of Digital Sound Scholarship Jonathan Sterne, with Mary Caton Linyold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien 285 CONTRIBUTORS 291 INDEX