Get involved with Soapbox! Informal get together May 7
Interested in joining or contributing to Soapbox? We invite you to an informal get together at Vox-Pop from 4.30pm on Tuesday 7th May, where you can get to know more about us and learn how to get involved! Soapbox is a journal for cultural analysis run by and providing a platform for students, PhDs and…
Singing in Silence The affordances of the (im)perceptible
As part of our series ‘Practices of Musicking’, Zeno Siemens attunes to the non-sonic forms of ‘singing’ exhibited by deaf performers in Christine Sun Kim’s ‘Face Opera II’. These embodied, visual and spatial acts of signing and facial expressions offer a musical experience accessible only through a non-aural, embodied practice of listening.
Issue 1.1 ‘Practices of Listening’ Our very first issue launches February 28
Read more about our upcoming issue and theme ‘Practices of Listening’, as well as February’s launch event.
Everyday Musicking 'Idiographies': listening through the mundane
As part of the course ‘Musicology of the Everyday’, MA students were encouraged to dwell on the hidden, potentially radical significance of seemingly mundane experiences listening to music, by writing brief and informal accounts of their day-to-day musical encounters.
Meyhanescapes Visualising embodied musical experience in the meyhane tavern
For the first piece in series ‘Practices of Musicking’, Suzi Asa attempts to understand her musical experience in Turkish taverns (‘meyhanes’) through illustrations that she terms ‘meyhanescapes’. Exploring the extra-sonic, embodied aspects of this ‘musicking’ experience, her visualisations allow us to rethink the nature of music and musical perception as based in practice – and not merely as aural ‘practices of listening’.
Listening to Race An interdisciplinary workshop on coloniality, race and sound
Ahead of the publication of our first issue, themed ‘Practices of Listening’, Zeno Siemens reports from this workshop exploring coloniality and race in sound, archives, listening technologies and practices.
Low-Resolutions Alternative self-improvements for 2019
To welcome in the new year, Justine Gensse and Anouk Hoogendoorn offer an alternative to the self-improvement narratives of New Year’s resolutions. Collected from students of ‘Gender, Bodies and the Posthuman’ at the University of Amsterdam, these ‘Low-resolutions’ form part of the exhibition W_show, which features work in progress from the University’s Master of Artistic Research.
Yours Affectively – Pt.1 An epistolary exchange
What is affect? In this epistolary exchange, which originated as an exploratory and collaborative research project for a tutorial, a group of students share thoughts organised in part by this question, by thinking through and with different approaches to the concept of affect.
Bringing Down the Master’s House Jack Halberstam on vertiginous capital and Kavanaugh
Kelly Klaver reports from Jack Halberstam’s keynote speech to the Global Critical Pedagogies Conference. Rejecting the “master’s tools”, Halberstam applied queer strategies of resistance to contemporary concerns, from Kavanaugh to gay marriage.
Call for Papers: 1.2 ‘Off the Grid’ Contribute to the second issue of our research journal
NOTE – the deadline for ‘Off the Grid’-themed abstracts has now passed, but we are still accepting submissions of full papers (4,000-6,000 words) on any other topic. Please email [email protected] Grids govern our landscapes and cityscapes, our paintings and grocery lists, our maps and our borders, both walled and imaginary. They get us our energy…