CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Sound and Sexuality in Video Games SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST This week’s podcast questions how identity is coded into the battle cries shouted by characters in video games.

It is customary that whenever I go to my Nana’s house I turn the car speakers as low as possible. She has super hearing. Sometimes I forget, and the following conversation takes place: “What’s up Nana Boo?” “I heard you before you got the house, girl. I told you about playing your music too loud.” “It wasn’t too loud.” “I heard you before I saw you.” “Yes ma’am. I’m sorry.” “Don’t bring attention to yourself.”

Twenty-five years after Do the Right Thing was nominated but overlooked for Best Picture, Spike Lee is about to receive an Academy Award. At the beginning of that modern classic, Rosie Perez danced into our collective imaginations to the sounds of Public Enemy. Branford Marsalis’s saxophone squealing, bass guitar revving up, she sprung into action in front of a row of Bed-Stuy brownstones.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Languages of Exile SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST Factual Dispersion, Poetic Compression With words stepping backwards from the wave of news coverage, attempting to retrace a moment or point in time, to go back where things began, to the innocuous genesis of a single deliberate […]

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Finding the Lost Sounds of Kaibah SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In the early 1960s Native American women had few opportunities and rights as citizens.

“When I wear my eyeliner, me siento más macha (I feel more macha) I’m ready to fight” (54) Makeup has long been an intentional part of a chola aesthetic: in particular, the skillful sign of bold black eyeliner or a carefully arched, thin, brow.

Welcome to our second installment of Hysterical Sound . Last week I discussed silence and hysteria in relation to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s silent film Hysteria , suggesting that the hysteric’s vocalizations go unheard because we have tuned them out.

Entering from the front, Lokananta seems quiet. An art-deco façade gives way to a sleepy courtyard with a central fountain—the sound of splashing water mixes with stately gamelan music from a wall-mounted speaker—but there are signs of activity here in Indonesia’s oldest record company.

This week we are pleased to welcome Guest Editor Karly-Lynne Scott kick off the last Thursday Series that Sounding Out! is running in 2015.

In Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy (NYU Press, 2014), Dolores Inés Casillas turns up the volume on the sonic and the political dynamics of the Latino immigrant experience in the United States.