Sounding the Nation: Resonance, Resistance, Listening, Community

3 credits · Graduate

What is the relationship between sound, listening, and voice and the social and political contexts in which sonic literary texts are situated? How can sound be employed or withdrawn to enforce, critique, resist, or revise past and existing communal formations? In this course, we examine how varying theories and practices of listening and sounding articulate political consensus and dissensus. With a primary focus on Canadian and Indigenous literary texts and theoretical texts from the field of sound studies, we study how forms of communion and resistance emerge through engagements with sonic literary forms, including fiction, poetry, song, audio collage, field recording, performance, orature, and more. FORMATS: Seminar