Ranked #1
Jacob Smith, “Eco-Sonic Media” (University of California Press, 2015)
Jacob Smith, “Eco-Sonic Media” (University of California Press, 2015)
Can we have sound media that is ecologically sound? Can we fine tune our media production and consumption habits to a gr... Read more
18 Jan 2018
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37mins
Ranked #2
Benjamin Tausig, "Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Benjamin Tausig, "Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint" (Oxford UP, 2019)
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security fo... Read more
30 Sep 2019
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39mins
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Ranked #3
David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny, “Keywords in Sound” (Duke UP, 2015)
David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny, “Keywords in Sound” (Duke UP, 2015)
Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) push... Read more
13 Jul 2018
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39mins
Ranked #4
Anne Cutler, “Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words” (MIT Press, 2012)
Anne Cutler, “Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words” (MIT Press, 2012)
One of the risks of a telephone interview is that the sound quality can be less than ideal, and sometimes there’s no way... Read more
1 Jul 2013
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52mins
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Ranked #5
Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)
Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)
Music lovers and researchers alike have long been fascinated by the story of Ludwig van Beethoven who became profoundly ... Read more
7 Feb 2019
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57mins
Ranked #6
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, “Personal Stereo” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, “Personal Stereo” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow‘s book, Personal Stereo (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) , which is part of the Object Lessons series, o... Read more
29 Sep 2022
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35mins
Ranked #7
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your atte... Read more
6 Dec 2018
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #8
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citize... Read more
19 Mar 2019
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32mins
Ranked #9
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
In her book Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Duke University Press, 2018), Catherine Russell d... Read more
29 Nov 2018
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53mins
Ranked #10
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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32mins
Ranked #11
Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World" (U California Press, 2018)
Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World" (U California Press, 2018)
Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World(University of California Press, 2018) by Pa... Read more
2 Jan 2019
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40mins
Ranked #12
Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)
Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)
In his new book, The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940 (Otago University Press... Read more
18 May 2018
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17mins
Ranked #13
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, Jame... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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59mins
Ranked #14
Thor Magnusson, "Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Thor Magnusson, "Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
In Sonic Writing: Technologies of Material, Symbolic, and Signal Inscriptions (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), Thor Magnusso... Read more
15 Apr 2020
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #15
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pu... Read more
30 Mar 2020
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54mins
Ranked #16
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Nick Crossley, "Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music" (Manchester UP, 2020)
What does music tell us about society? In Connecting Sounds: The Social Life of Music (Manchester University Press, 2020... Read more
16 Mar 2020
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38mins
Ranked #17
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton Uni... Read more
25 Feb 2020
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42mins
Ranked #18
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinkin... Read more
30 Jan 2020
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39mins
Ranked #19
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social ... Read more
3 Dec 2019
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57mins
Ranked #20
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke UP, 2019)
Nina Sun Eidsheim, "The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre and Vocality in African American Music" (Duke UP, 2019)
In 2018, Nicolle R. Holliday and Daniel Villarreal published the results of a study they conducted asking people to rank... Read more
4 Nov 2019
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1hr 9mins
