Second issue of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies is out now!
We're still in catch-up mode, but issue #2 of JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies has been released into the wild.
Here's the table of contents:
Soundscapes, Sonic Cultures, and American Studies
Nassim Balestrini, Klaus Rieser, and Katharina Fackler, "Introduction to the Special Issue"
Barry L. Shank, "Sound + Bodies in Community = Music"
Mark M. Smith, "In Praise of Discord: Beyond Harmony in Historical Acoustemology"
Nathalie Aghoro, "Voice, Silence, and Quiet Resistance in Percival Everett's Glyph"
Joe Cantrell, "The Timbre of Trash: Rejecting Obsolescence through Collaborative New Materialist Sound Production"
Susanne Leikam, "American Studies, Sound Studies, and Cultural Memory: Woody Van Dyke's San Francisco as a Sonic Contact Zone"
Leopold Lippert, "The Gendered Sounds of Revolutionary American Theater"
Roxana Oltean, "'Language ... Without Metaphor': Soundscapes and Worldly Engagements in Henry David Thoreau's Walden"
Ralph J. Poole, "'Ta, te, ti, toe, too': The Horrors of the Harsh Female Voice in 1950s Hollywood Comedies"
A. Elisabeth Reichel, "Sonic Others in Early Sound Studies and the Poetry of Edward Sapir: A Salvage Operation"
Matthew D. Sutton, "The Motion and the Noise: Yoknapatawpha's Shifting Soundscape"
