HUM 597B

Spring 2023 | 1 cr., open to Graduate Students only

Re-Mix the Archive: Critical

Race and Feminist Methods
in Sound Studies
Michelle Habell-Pallán, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies
John Vallier, Ethnomusicology
Course Summary Mahon, Gayle Wald, and Alexandra Vazquez.
Sound studies explores the emergence and Students will also learn basic techniques for
transformation of the concept of “sound” in creating short interview podcasts, curating three-
modernity with an emphasis on the development to-five-minute podcast recordings.
of sound reproduction technology. As the field
has taken shape, scholars have called for a Evaluation
more expansive conception of sound studies. C/NC
In response, critical race feminist sound studies
scholarship has ushered in an intersectional Course Meetings & Location
reconsideration of everything from overlooked Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30pm:
historical actors to the role played by women in April 5 & 19, May 10 & 17
hardware development and sound recording CMU 202, Simpson Center for the Humanities
(Kheshti, 2018). In conjunction with the Katz
Distinguished Lectureship and Sound Pedagogies Daphne Brooks’ Katz Distinguished Lecture: May 9
Roundtable, this course prepares graduate Sound Pedagogies Roundtable: May 11
students to analyze sound in the archive. It
asks two questions: 1) what constitutes a sound Instructors
archive, and 2) how do we produce knowledge If you have questions about the course, please
through sound? Drawing upon feminist of color reach out to Michelle Habell-Pallán (mhabellp@
sound studies and digital humanities to “explore uw.edu).
how sonic experience might transform our
scholarly networks, writing processes, research
methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of
the archive” (Lingold, Mueller & Trettien 2018),
students will become familiar with critical sound
studies scholarship, focusing on the work of four
vital feminist scholars: Daphne Brooks, Maureen