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New Books in Sound Studies

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Sharon White
Pioneering DJ who is credited with advancing the representation of women in DJ culture.
Episode: S2. E10. Sharon White Rewires Disco
Alice Echols
Historian and author focusing on disco's cultural impact
University of Southern California
Episode: James Brown's War on Disco
Eduardo Mercado III
Professor of psychology at the University of Buckeye, SUNY, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
Johns Hopkins University Press
Episode: Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
Birgit Abels
Co-author of 'Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality'
University of California Press
Episode: Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Patrick Eisenlohr
Co-author of 'Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality'
University of California Press
Episode: Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Micah Salkind
Director of Civic and Cultural Life at the Rhode Island Foundation, DJ and author.
Rhode Island Foundation
Episode: Disco's Revenge
Gillian Frank
Assistant professor in the history of the modern United States at Trinity College, Dublin, researching gender and sexuality intersections with religion and race.
Trinity College, Dublin
Episode: Disco Sucks
Ronnie Soares
DJ and influential figure in New York's disco scene who transitioned from a dancer to a DJ.
Episode: Disco's "Latin Tinge"
Luis Mario Orellana Rizzo
Pioneer DJ influential in the spread of dance music since 1969, founder of Legends of Vinyl.
Legends of Vinyl
Episode: Disco's "Latin Tinge"

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Ryan Purcell
Co-host of the podcast and an expert in sound studies, delving into various themes related to sound, culture, and academia.
Kristie Soares
Co-host contributing insights into sound studies and the cultural contexts surrounding sound, music, and media.

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Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: How do you study atmospheric practices in Micronesia?
An atmospheric understanding of knowledge can highlight the relationship between ancestral wisdom and modern environmental practices.
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: In Chapter 5, what does multisensoriality open up for us in terms of atmospheric understanding?
Atmospheres are really about an entire range of sensory modalities that play into each other.
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: In Chapter 2, how do you approach vocal quality and style relating to authenticity?
The vocal qualities are significant and must not sound like Bollywood singers; it requires a consistency in vocal quality.
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: Why Atmosphere and how do you approach it as both a concept and a modality?
Atmosphere's in the neophenomenological sense is something that came to me in the field during my research with people in the Pacific island world.
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
Q: How would you like to introduce the book to our listeners?
Our book is really an investigation of knowledge through the sensors and felt-beveling knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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