Sonic Blackness: Race, Space, and Voice in Afro-Brazilian Radio
Reighan A Gillam (University of Michigan) In 2007, a group of Afro-Brazilian college students started the Dandaras radio program under the aegis of their university in São Paulo, Brazil. This paper […]
Ghost Notes: Re-Performing Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder
Darren Mueller (Duke University) Some jazz performances are haunted. After Duke Ellington’s death in 1974, his orchestra continues to play under the direction of Ellington’s son and grandson. Musicians often refer […]
Knowledge Is a Sound: Teaching and Learning Science in Four Urban Classrooms
Walter S. Gershon (Kent State University) From questions about methodology to constructions of meaning, there is a great deal of literature dedicated to the significance of voice across the wide variety […]
Establishing a Conversation With the Past and the Present
Steven Elster (Center for Investigations of Health and Education Disparities, UCSD) Establishing a Conversation With the Past and the Present: Towards a Greater Understanding of Southern California Creation Stories and Songs […]
Shakuhachi in a Modernized World: Mediation of a Transformed Culture in the United States
Sarah Renata Strothers (Florida State University) Technological processes have proved to be quite useful in the proliferation and development of traditional Japanese cultures in the United States—especially with regard to the […]
Remediations: Audiological Media and the Experience of Tinnitus
Mack Hagood (Miami University, Ohio) Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) often utilize moments of technological breakdown to reveal the processes and mechanisms that constitute things we take for granted. […]
Boucan: loud “African” Girls Singing and Dancing in Public Spaces
Laura Steil (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) They call themselves “Bana Danger”, “Black Boukantes”, “Les Boucantières” or “Bana Massacreuzes”, names that refer to their African origins, racialized and gendered subjectivities, and […]
Doo Wop: Black Urban Consciousness and the Limits of Communitas in Digitally Mediated Performance
Scott Swan (Florida State University) Based on anecdotal evidence from oral history and supporting research, this paper proffers two challenges. First, this paper challenges conventional consideration of 1950s “doo wop” […]
BRAIN, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND EXPERIENCE
Chicago Hilton: Joliet Room Friday November 22, 2013 4:00 PM-5:45 PM The interrelationship between the brain, human consciousness, and experience has long been a mystery, a proverbial black box. Insights from […]
You Are the Mountain: Modeling Religious Experience in Light of Cognitive Neuroscience
Bryan Rill (Florida State University) In recent years insights from cognitive neuroscience have led anthropologists to reconsider constructs of culture and experience. Neuroanthropology now provides evidence that patterned practices have the […]