Publications
Maria Denzlein, Sophie Schönfeld (eds.)
Listening in: Perspectives on Sound, Voice, and (Popular) Music Studies
Würzburg: Würzburg University Press, 2025.
JMU Cultural Studies 2
This book is a project of listening. We are putting our ears to the wall, the ground, and the very edges of discursive spaces to listen in on conversations around sound, voice, and music. In particular, young scholars make their voices heard in this second volume of the JMU CULTURAL STUDIES series. The texts which connect and even converse with each other in this volume confront the fundamental realities of historical and contemporary auditory experience, while simultaneously inviting us into the writers’ own personal soundscapes and fields of interest. This conversation flows from the resonance of music across society to our listening practices, to modes of performing, to expressions of gender, and it concludes with the increasing digitalization of sound.
For more information see: https://www.wup.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/meldungen/single/news/listening-in-perspectives-on-sound-voice-and-popular-music-studies/
Tobias Jetter (ed.).
Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames
Würzburg: Würzburg University Press, 2023.
JMU Cultural Studies 1
Can cultural studies attend to the problems of our globalized world? Or is this project of “engaged scholarship” too deeply rooted in the parochial terrain of the national? This collection of essays – the first volume in the new JMU Cultural Studies publication series – attends to this vital yet difficult question. Based on joint seminars bringing together emerging scholars from Germany and India, the contributions confront “classic texts” from US-American, British, and Indian cultural studies with the specific concerns and contemporary perspectives of the authors. The collection thus tests the potentials of the tradition to speak to the transnational as well as the national environments of the very present. Emphasis is placed on Marxist and feminist legacies, which are then projected into the domains of contemporary disability, food, and film studies.
For more information see:
https://www.wup.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/meldungen/single/news/global-cultural-studies/
