In this session, special guest Jonathan Sterne, Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University, and author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Sound Studies Reader, will join Michael Kramer and NUDHL participants in an informal discussion around digital sound studies.

Jonathan Sterne (@jonathansterne) teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University.  He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012), The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke, 2003); and numerous articles on media, technologies and the politics of culture.  He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012).  His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; histories of signal processing; and the intersections of disability, technology and perception.

Event Details (*Note different day, place and time than usual*)
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, Northwestern University Library, 11am-1pm
For more information contact Michael Kramer.

Recommended Readings

• Jonathan Sterne, MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Introduction)
• Jonathan Sterne, Sound Studies Reader (Introduction)
• Suggested additional readings from Sound Studies Reader: Don Ihde, “The Auditory Dimension”; Charles Hirschkind, “Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo”; Emily Thompson, “Sound, Modernity and History”