Illegible: Literary Audition (Notes from the Weekend)
Sound & Literature | UCLA, January 13-14
Directions:
UCLA: Directions + Public Transit
Herb Alpert School of Music, Schoenberg Music Bldg., 445 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Los Angeles, California
Humanities Building, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Schedule:
Day 1 (Saturday) 1/13
• 9am – First session// discussion of “Douglass Dossier” and Kheshti reading (Green Room, Schoenberg Music Bldg., UCLA) (coffee and breakfast snacks provided)
• 12:00pm – Lunch (provided/TBD)
• 1pm – Public Panel: Roshanak Kheshti, Nina Eidsheim (NEW TITLE: “Where were you when you found out singer Bobby Caldwell was white?’ Racialized Timbre as Narrative Plot.”) & Jessica Holmes (Room 1439, Schoenberg Music Bldg., UCLA)
• 3pm— Second session// discussion of panels and “Sound-meaning” (Green Room, UCLA)
• 6pm – Dinner
• _pm – social gathering / sound activity (TBD)
Day 2 (Sunday) 1/14
• 9am – Breakfast (coffee + snacks provided) + Sound Meditation (Humanities 348, UCLA )
• 10:00am – Third Session//Seminar: John Jordan on “Dickens and Soundscape (Humanities 348, UCLA )
• 12pm— Lunch (not provided)
• 1pm— Fourth session// Plan for UCSC Conference (Green Room, UCLA)
• 3pm – Break / social gathering / sound activity (TBD)
Readings:
- “Douglass Dossier” by Chip Badley with selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Former Slave by Frederick Douglass; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, by Saidiya V Hartman; & In the Break by Fred Moten.
- “Sound-meaning association bias evidenced across thousands of languages” by Blasi and colleagues (2016)
- “Introduction” by Roshanak Kheshti, from Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (2015)
- “Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop” by John Jordan
Extra Readings
- Excerpts from “The Tuning of the World” by R. Murray Schafer
- “Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping” by Charles Bernstein
- “Introduction” and Chapter on Dickens from “Victorian Soundscapes” by John M. Picker
- “The Dickens Tape” by Jay Clayton
- “The Fog of Meaning and the Voiceless Demos” by Elizabeth A. Povinelli; from Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016)
- “Noise” by David Novak, from Keywords in Sound (2015)
- Excerpts on “The Arbitrary Nature of the Sign” and “Linguistic Value” from the Course in General Linguistics, by Ferdinand de Saussure