Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic spheres in Canada. The book explores works by leading practitioners in both oral/aural and literary forms.
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- Montreal, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- RESISTANT PRACTICES in COMMUNITIES of SOUND 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- CONTENTS 8
- Figures and Scores 12
- Introduction: Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound 16
- On Transcription: A Prelude (in Conversation with Deanna Fong) 39
- 1 “We make something out of what records we can find”: An Interview with Wayde Compton 63
- 2 Race, Multiplicity, and Dis/Located Voices: Wayde Compton’s Turntablist Poetics 75
- 3 “The fact of my mouth”: An Interview with Jordan Scott 90
- 4 Listening as Access: Toward Relational Listening for Nonnormative Speech and Communication 102
- 5 “That in-between space”: An Interview with Oana Avasilichioaei 118
- 6 New Forms of Digital, Temporal, and Auditory Poiesis 131
- 7 “It doesn’t mean anything except talking”: An Interview with Tracie Morris 149
- 8 “It’s resistance but it’s also embrace”: Tracie Morris’s Collaborative Ear, An Open Letter 168
- 9 “What is being resisted is our ‘yes’”: An Interview with Tawhida Tanya Evanson, El Jones, and Erin Scott 176
- 10 The Whatever-icity of Spoken Word: Community, Identity, Performativity 209
- 11 “A taking in, a holding with”: An Interview with Jordan Abel 226
- 12 Can We Think of Sound (or Voice) without Sight (or the Gaze)? Lacanian Theory and the Horror of Community 246
- 13 Transcript of Lesbian Liberation Across Media: A Sonic Screening Podcast, Introduction 259
- 14 Listening to LGBTQ2+ Communities at the Lesbian Liberation Across Media Watch Party 286
- 15 “It was an extension of the moment”: Five Poets in Conversation on Analog Audio Recording and Creative Practice 299
- 16 Curatorial Agency at Véhicule Art Inc.: “Openness was a guiding spirit to VÉHICULE” 337
- 17 “Songs are so much more than songs”: An Interview with Dylan Robinson 352
- 18 “Misaudition” 366
- Contributors 372
- Index 378