With this conference theme, the Austrian Association for American Studies tunes into the growing bandwidth that the study of sound has been acquiring within the field of American Studies and beyond.
Special issues on sound studies have appeared in journals ranging from the American Studies Association’s American Quarterly to Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.
Since 2009, the open access weekly Sounding Out! The Sound Studies Blog has been featuring peer-reviewed articles and scholarly conversations in myriad formats. It is also notable that the aforementioned special issue of American Quarterly appeared simultaneously with a complementary website that provides many of the sounds and soundscapes discussed in the featured articles. These examples from a burgeoning field have contributed to firmly situating soundscapes and sonic cultures as essential to the American experience and to American cultural practices.
Please find more information under:
http://amerikanistik.uni-graz.at/de/conference-soundscapes-and-sonic-cultures-in-america/