Julie Beth Napolin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Beth Napolin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Napolin |
| SIGNATURE | NAPOLIN J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Between Sound and Image
In 1929, the “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith made her only known film appearance in a short, two-reel film by Dudley Murphy, St. Louis Blues, titled after the W.C. Handy song that Smith had made famous. One prefiguration of the music video medium, it was the first film to be made to a preexisting song. Sixty years later, the song moves into a third instantiation when Isaac Julien returns to a fragment of Smith’s film performance in his dreamy…
Hello Stranger
Research Article| June 01 2023 Hello Stranger: Ellipsis and Song in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin is an associate professor of digital humanities at The New School. Her first book, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP, 2020) was shortlisted for the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She has published several essays on sound, music, and race in lite…
Sound Theory at Grand Theory’s End
Review of Sound Objects. Edited by James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN 9781478001454 (paperback)
Surface Listening
This essay is a critical narrative of an experience of listening to the Wooster Group’s The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” A Record Album Interpretation (2017). The performance is a verbatim recitation of a 1965 ethnographic recording by Bruce Jackson of African American men toasting and singing works songs just before Texas prisons were desegregated. African American actors on stage hear the album through earpieces and re-perf…
Worlds of Sound
When in the 1930s Mikhail Bakhtin theorized the stylistic uniqueness of the novel, he declared, “[the] human being in the novel is first, foremost and always a speaking human being” (332). On the other side of media studies, Bakhtin's modernist insight into polyphony strikes contemporary readers as being premised on the separability of a voice from a speaker and its travel in time and space. It is a phonographic, if not also radiophonic insight, …
Future Anterior Witness
This essay describes acts of recording by Rakeiya Scott and Diamond Reynolds, who captured on cellphone video and vocally narrated the police deaths of their loved ones. There is a long Western tradition of testifying to the death of a loved one while it is unfolding. In the United States, this history is racialized by unjust Black death and the forms of extra-juridical testimony, from Frederick Douglass to Ida B. Wells, that accompany it. But ce…
Adjacent Histories
In this conversation, composed through written correspondence, Julie Beth Napolin and Amanda Armstrong-Price discuss aspects of Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name?” in light of contemporary feminist debates, including debates within black feminism and transfeminism. The authors begin by considering the significance of Riley’s unconventional title, outlining what might be at stake—and what might be occluded—in the title’s allusion to Sojourner Truth’s…
The capaciousness of sound studies
Toward the beginning of James Baldwin’s 1948 short story “Sonny’s Blues”, the narrator listens to a series of sounds wafting into his New York City schoolroom window:One boy was whistling a tune, a
A Sinister Resonance”
Research Article| December 01 2013 “A Sinister Resonance”: Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 69–100. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.2.0069 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Beth Napolin; “A Sinister Resonance”: Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow…
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A Sinister Resonance”
Research Article| December 01 2013 “A Sinister Resonance”: Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 69–100. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.21.2.0069 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Beth Napolin; “A Sinister Resonance”: Vibration, Sound, and the Birth of Conrad's Marlow…
The capaciousness of sound studies
Toward the beginning of James Baldwin’s 1948 short story “Sonny’s Blues”, the narrator listens to a series of sounds wafting into his New York City schoolroom window:One boy was whistling a tune, a
Adjacent Histories
In this conversation, composed through written correspondence, Julie Beth Napolin and Amanda Armstrong-Price discuss aspects of Denise Riley’s “Am I That Name?” in light of contemporary feminist debates, including debates within black feminism and transfeminism. The authors begin by considering the significance of Riley’s unconventional title, outlining what might be at stake—and what might be occluded—in the title’s allusion to Sojourner Truth’s…
Sound Theory at Grand Theory’s End
Review of Sound Objects. Edited by James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN 9781478001454 (paperback)
Surface Listening
This essay is a critical narrative of an experience of listening to the Wooster Group’s The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” A Record Album Interpretation (2017). The performance is a verbatim recitation of a 1965 ethnographic recording by Bruce Jackson of African American men toasting and singing works songs just before Texas prisons were desegregated. African American actors on stage hear the album through earpieces and re-perf…
Worlds of Sound
When in the 1930s Mikhail Bakhtin theorized the stylistic uniqueness of the novel, he declared, “[the] human being in the novel is first, foremost and always a speaking human being” (332). On the other side of media studies, Bakhtin's modernist insight into polyphony strikes contemporary readers as being premised on the separability of a voice from a speaker and its travel in time and space. It is a phonographic, if not also radiophonic insight, …
Future Anterior Witness
This essay describes acts of recording by Rakeiya Scott and Diamond Reynolds, who captured on cellphone video and vocally narrated the police deaths of their loved ones. There is a long Western tradition of testifying to the death of a loved one while it is unfolding. In the United States, this history is racialized by unjust Black death and the forms of extra-juridical testimony, from Frederick Douglass to Ida B. Wells, that accompany it. But ce…
Between Sound and Image
In 1929, the “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith made her only known film appearance in a short, two-reel film by Dudley Murphy, St. Louis Blues, titled after the W.C. Handy song that Smith had made famous. One prefiguration of the music video medium, it was the first film to be made to a preexisting song. Sixty years later, the song moves into a third instantiation when Isaac Julien returns to a fragment of Smith’s film performance in his dreamy…
Hello Stranger
Research Article| June 01 2023 Hello Stranger: Ellipsis and Song in Barry Jenkins's Moonlight Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin Julie Beth Napolin is an associate professor of digital humanities at The New School. Her first book, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP, 2020) was shortlisted for the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She has published several essays on sound, music, and race in lite…
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