Syllabus

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This is a tentative schedule by week and day for assignments, readings, and activities. Tentative means I can vary it as much as seems appropriate. However, plan on sticking very close to this outline especially on major due dates. I will post all revisions of and additions to the syllabus on this web page.


Week 1 - Introductions (2006)

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R Jan 16

  • Ball and Hawk, "Sound in/as Compositional Space: A Next Step in Multiliteracies" Special Issue of Computers and Composition (2006) - Intro + Pick One:
    • Halbritter, "Musical Rhetoric in Integrated Media Composition"
    • Hess, "Was Foucault a Plagiarist? Hip-hop Sampling and Academic Citation"
    • McKee, "Sound Matters: Notes Toward the Analysis and Design of Sound in Multimodal Webtexts"
    • Rice, "The Making of Ka-knowledge: Digital Aurality"
    • Rickert-Salvo, "The Distributed Gesamptkunstwerk: Sound, Worlding, and New Media Culture"
    • Shankar, "Speaking on the Record: A Theory of Composition"
    • Shipka, "Sound Engineering: Toward a Theory of Multimodal Soundness"
  • Soundwriting Pedagogies (listen to promo and preface)
  • Sterne, "Sonic Imaginations" SSR
  • Novak and Sakakeeny, "Introduction" Keywords in Sound
  • Coole and Frost, "Introduction" New Materialisms

Listening


Suggested

Week 2 – Voice and Listening (2009)

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R Jan 23

  • Selfe, "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing" CCC (2009)
  • Chion, "The Three Listening Modes" SSR
  • Barthes, "Listening"
  • Barthes, "Grain of the Voice" SSR
  • Ihde, "Under the Signs of Husserl and Heidegger" Ch.2 Listening and Voice
  • Ahmed, "Orientations Matter" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Hearing + Voice

Listening


Suggested

  • Cavarero, "Multiple Voices" SSR
  • Ihde, "The Auditory Dimension" SSR
  • Ihde, Listening and Voice: A Phenomenology of Sound (Ch.8)
  • Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
  • Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World
  • Kane, Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
  • Voegelin, Listening to Noise and Silence
  • Grimshaw and Garner, Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception
  • Links - Listening

Week 3 – Soundscapes (2011)

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R Jan 30

  • Hawk, Rev. of Sonic Persuasions: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age, by Greg Goodale PnR (2011/2014)
  • Davis, "Writing with Sound" Special issue of Currents in Electronic Literacy (2011) - Intro + Pick 1
    • Ronell, "Nietzsche was a DJ"
    • Paul Miller, "DJ Spooky Interview"
    • Barness, "Common Sounds"
    • Carter, "inter.Virtual.Vitalism.views: Aural Encounters with Byron Hawk, Victor Vitanza, and Alex Reid"
    • Stedman, "How Music Speaks: In the Background, In the Remix, In the City"
    • Lueck, "Writing Without Sound: Language Politics in Closed Captioning"
    • Hawk and Smith, "‘Digimortal’: Sound in a Posthuman World"
    • Haynes, "Thinking Across the Neck: Playing Slide with Fret/work Blues"
    • Schicke, "An Autoethnography of Sound: Local Music Culture in Colorado"
    • Rice, "Inquiry as Telos"
    • VanKooten, "A New Composition, a 21st Century Pedagogy, and the Rhetoric of Music"
    • Blaauw-Hara and Putman, "Remixing the Personal Narrative Essay"
    • French and Bloom, "Auralacy: From Plato to Podcasting and Back Again"
    • Sirc and Ceraso, "Digital Lyrical"
  • Schafer, "The Soundscape" SSR
  • Blesser and Salter, "Ancient Acoustic Spaces" SSR
  • Johnstone, "Communication in Classical Contexts"
  • Ingold, Being Alive Ch.11 "Four Objections to the Concept of Soundscape"
  • Voegelin, Sonic Possible Worlds (1-25)
  • Keywords - Acoustics + Echo

Listening


Suggested

Week 4 – Noise (2013)

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R Feb 6

  • Gunn, et al. "Auscultating Again: Rhetoric and Sound Studies" RSQ (2013)
  • LaBelle, "Auditory Relations" SSR
  • Attali, "Noise: The Political Economy of Music" SSR
  • Serres, "Noise"
  • Novak, Japanoise Ch.1 excerpt
  • Orlie, "Impersonal Matter" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Noise + Deafness

Listening


Suggested

Week 5 – Short Paper 1

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R Feb 13

In Class

  • Individual paper presentations.
  • Download/Setup Audacity - Open Source Audio Editing Software (also here).
  • LAME plugin for Audacity so you can export MP3s (scroll down the FAQ page).
  • Audacity Hack: Respond verbally to one of the presentations in under 1 minute via Audacity--record, edit, save, export, upload (see Audacity Intro as needed).
  • Links - Audacity

Week 6 – Publics (2013)

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R Feb 20

  • Ahern, "Tuning the Sonic Playing Field: Teaching Ways of Knowing Sound in First Year Writing" Computers and Composition (2013)
  • Stone and Ceraso, “Sonic Rhetorics” Special Issue of Harlot (2013) - Intro + Pick One:
    • Edwards, "Finding Nowhere"
    • Ahern and Frith "Speaking Back to Our Spaces: The Rhetoric of Social Soundscaping"
    • Langreck, "Shane Leonard: Sonic Traditions in Eau Claire, WI"
    • Stedman, "Making Meaning in Musical Mixes"
    • Barber, "Audiobiography: A Sonic Memoir of the 1960s"
    • Dorwick, "Two Sound Pieces"
    • Vogel, "Recitative: The Persuasive Tenor of Jazz Culture"
    • Lambke, "The Oral Aural Walter Ong"
    • Lawrence, "The Quiet, Wintry North: Digital Folk of the Upper Peninsula"
  • Goodman, Sonic Warfare (Chs. 2, 5, 7, 34)
  • Latour, "From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik"
  • Frost, "Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Listening + Body

Listening


Suggested

Week 7 – Cities (2014)

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R Feb 27

  • Ceraso, “(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences” College English (2014)
  • Labelle, Acoustic Territories (Ch.2 43-65, 74-84)
  • Ouzounian, "Acoustic Mapping" The Acoustic City
  • Royaards, "The Space Between" The Acoustic City
  • Cobussen, "Towards a 'New' Sonic Ecology"
  • Moore and Smallwood, "The Soundscape of Burning Man" Soundsscape 11
  • Connolly, "Materialities of Experience" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Space + Silence

Listening


Suggested

Week 8 – Technologies (2015)

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R Mar 5

  • Alexander, "Glenn Gould and the Rhetorics of Sound," Computers and Composition (2015)
  • Lastra, "Fidelity v. Intelligibility" SSR
  • Mowitt, "The Sound of Music in the Era of its Reproducibility" SSR
  • Meintjes, "The Recording Studio as Fetish" SSR
  • Sterne, MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Ch.6 "Is Music a Thing?" 184-197, 218-226)
  • Law and Singleton, "Object Lessons"
  • Grosz, “Feminism, Materialism, Freedom” New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Phonography + Radio

Listening


Suggested

March 8-15 – Spring Break

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Week 9 – Short Paper 2

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R Mar 19

In Class

Week 10 – Archive and Ontology (2015)

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R Mar 26


Listening


Suggested

Week 11 – Anthropocene (2016)

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R Apr 2

  • Comstock and Hocks "The Sounds of Climate Change: Sonic Rhetoric in the Anthropocene, the Age of Human Impact" Rhetoric Review (2016)
  • Droumeva, "Soundmapping as Critical Cartography: Engaging Publics in Listening to the Environment"
  • Jones, "Sonic Ecology" The Acoustic City (bats)
  • Minotou et al., "Listening to the Ecosystem of the Turtle" Soundsscape 11
  • Alaimo, "Trans-Corporeal Feminism and the Ethical Space of Nature" Material Feminisms
  • Braidotti, "The Politics of 'Life Itself'" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Acoustemology + Transduction

Listening


Suggested

Week 12 – Resonance + the Virtual (2017)

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R Apr 9

  • Hawk and Stuart, "English Composition as a Sonic Practice" (2017)
  • Hocks and Comstock, "Composing for Sound: Sonic Rhetoric as Resonance" (2017)
  • Hawk, "Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical" (2018)
  • Bost and Greene, "Affirming Rhetorical Materialism"
  • Panzner, The Process that is the World (Ch.1)
  • Cheah, "Non-Dialectical Materialism" New Materialisms
  • Keywords - Resonance

Listening


Suggested

Week 13 – Sonic Pedagogies (2018) + Short Paper 3

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R Apr 16


Suggested


Writing

  • Write SP.3 and upload to Dropbox.
  • In this SP I want you to focus on the readings from this section but apply them to either 1) how you think you'll incorporate sound into your academic research or 2) how you will incorporate sound into your teaching. (Hint: this SP will in a sense be your entryway into the final paper.)

Week 14 – Podcasts

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R Apr 23

Reading/Listening


Podcasts


Suggested


Writing

  • Develop a podcast episode or experimental sound project using field recordings, downloaded sounds, and/or recordings of your own narration/voice. Base your sound project on SP.3 and how you think you'll use sound in either your research or teaching--if you plan to teach podcasts, make an episode; if you plan on doing field recordings for your research, make one of those; etc.
  • Sound Projects Due - Friday May 1 by midnight. Upload to Dropbox.


Week 15 – Exam Week

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Apr 27 – May 1

  • Work on final papers, essentially extending SP.3 into a longer paper.
  • Final Papers Due - Friday May 8 by midnight. Upload to Dropbox.