By Martha Feldman and Nicholas Mathew, editors of Representations’s special issue, “Music and Sound at the Edges of History” Most people use music and sound to understand their worlds without needing professional …
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening Sound in recent years has escaped its traditionally subordinate relationship to sight and become the object of widespread …
Read More >Civic Sociology aims to be a forum for the cultivation of normative inquiry within the discipline, and to offer a space for the many conversations that different ethical turns have spurred.
Read More >This past year, we began the initial research and discovery phase of developing our FirstGen Scholars Program, an initiative to support and improve the publishing experience for authors who are the first …
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Read More >By Laurel Kendall, author of Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places The paintings of bold-faced gods in the Korean shaman’s shrine had fallen to the floor and …
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Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History In his classic study of perception, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes the experience of listening to a classical sonata, which …
Read More >By Aaron Jackson, author of Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities Why did he die?’ My youngest daughter, Winter, asks. I scoop her onto my …
Read More >This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s arrival in Texas to proclaim the end …
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