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1. Introduction: Breaking Sound Barriers– Gustavus Stadler
2. Sound, Knowledge, and the "Immanence of Human Failure": Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano–David Suisman
3. Deaf Jam: From Inscription to Reproduction to Information–Mara Mills
4. Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York–Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman
5. Never Heard Such a Thing: Lynching and Phonographic Modernity–Gustavus Stadler
6. Can You Feel the Beat?: Freestyle's Systems of Living, Loving, and Recording–Alexandra T. Vazquez
7. Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse–Jayna Brown
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This issue of Social Text offers fresh perspectives on the study of sound, music, and politics by centering its attention on recording. The contributors to “The Politics of Recorded Sound” seek to tell a broader story, both politically and historically, about the role of recording in modernity, moving beyond the usual focus on music alone, and portraying it as dialectically engaged with historical formations of race, gender, labor, disability, and nation.
One essay uncovers the lost history of studio recordings of lynching reenactments in the 1890s and analyzes the place of these reenactments among representations of blackness in early phonography. Another essay provides a detailed account of the piano roll’s centrality in technological and cultural conceptions of sound reproduction, while yet another essay exposes the role of experiments with the deaf in the development of sound recording technology. The final essay addresses the utopian impulse in contemporary global pop.