Jennifer Lynn Stoever

Editor-in-Chief  Jennifer Lynn Stoever received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from USC. She serves on the editorial boards of Sound Studies, Senses and Society, and Social Text. She has published in Social Text, Social Identities, Sound Effects, Modernist Cultures, American Quarterly and Radical History Review among others; her most recent research, “Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx” was published in The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Studies  (and is FREE to download as of this bio revision in March 2019).

Selected Posts for Sounding Out!

Toward A Civically Engaged Sound Studies, or ReSounding Binghamton, 14 August 2014

On the Lower Frequencies: Norman Corwin, Colorblindness, and the “Golden Age” of U.S. Radio, 10 September 2012

“#Blog-O-Versary 3.0,”  27 July 2012

“Sound at SCMS 2012,” 26 March 2012

“Sound at MLA 2012,” 2 January 2012

“Sounding Out! Occupies the Internet, or Why I Blog,” 28 Nov. 2011

“Sound at ASA 2011,”17 October 2011

“Play it Again (and Again), Sam: The Tape Recorder in Film.” Part one on Noir, Part two on Walter Murch, and Part three on The 1980s, 20 June 20, 18 July, and 15 August 2011

“It’s Our Blog-O-Versary 2.0!” 27 July 2011

“Sound at SCMS 2011,” 28 February 2011

“Sound at MLA 2011,” 3 January 2011

“President Obama: All Over But the Shouting?” 20 December 2010

“Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Afternoon,” 18 November 2010

“Sound at ASA 2010,” 15 November 2010

“Como Now?: Marketing ‘Authentic’ Black Music,”  20 October 2010

“Ill Communication: Hip Hop Studies and Sound Studies,”  21 Sept. 2010

“The Noise of SB 1070 or Do I Sound Illegal to You?” 19 August 2010

“It’s Our Blog-O-Versary,” 27 July 2010

“Summer Soundscapes. East Coast Style,” 22 July 2010

“And You Will Know Us By the Sound of Vuvuzelas,” 30 July 2010

“Sounds of Home”  3 June 2010

“Reading the Politics of Recorded Sound,” 22 April 2010

“Gendered Ears,” 26 October 2009

“The Grain of the Voice or the Contour of the Ear?” 15 September 2009

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