Jennifer Lynn Stoever

Editor-in-Chief  Jennifer Lynn Stoever received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from USC. Her dissertation, “The Contours of the Sonic Color-Line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening” was a 2007 finalist for the American Studies Association Dissertation Prize. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Sound Studies, and Social Text. She has published in Social Text, Social Identities, Sound Effects, American Quarterly and Radical History Review among others; most recently her article “Fine-Tuning the Sonic Color-line: Radio and the Acousmatic Du Bois“ was published in Modernist Cultures and is the featured online article of the issue.  Currently Associate Professor at SUNY Binghamton, Jennifer teaches courses on African American literature and race and gender representation in popular music.  During 2011-2012, she was a fellow at The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, participating in the research group on Sound: Culture, Theory, Politics. In 2016, she published her first book, The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press).

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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