Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

119. Thinking Sound: Aural Cultures in America

8:30–9:45 a.m., Maryland Suite A, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature

Presiding: Bill Brown, Univ. of Chicago

1. “Chittering Feebly: Animal Noise and Naturalist Mechanics,” Paul D. Young, Vanderbilt Univ.

2. “Bottle of the Bands: Automatic Music and American Media Publics,” Lisa Gitelman, Catholic Univ. of America

3. “Early Cinema’s Vocal Gestures,” Jonathan Auerbach, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

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