Reginold A Royston
Biographic Data
| ID | 322804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginold A Royston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginold A |
| FAMILY NAME | Royston |
| SIGNATURE | ROYSTON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1047-5256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deep Listening: Podcast Audiences and Affective Resonance in Urban Ghana
Podcasting, with its focus on voices, remains a compelling topic for African studies research, which has historically put orality at the center of the field. Recognizing sparse audience inclusion in existing research on African podcasting, the authors conducted focus groups with listeners in urban Ghana to document consumption practices and attitudes toward this form of new orality. Using the concept “deep listening” drawn from participant commen…
From the Grammys to Agbogbloshie: African Viral Dance’s Troubled Circuits
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back
With the growing prevalence of audiobooks and the growth of the recorded spoken-word industry worldwide, this article highlights the ways in which sound studies scholars and literary critics alike can reconsider the importance of the “talking book” as a key form of oral literature. In this article, we explore the audiobooks of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – two key pieces of Black Atlantic literature in which the aesth…
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
This article proposes the notion of soulcraft as an alternative framing for the work that Africans and African diasporans imbue upon material culture and social projects. Through ethnographic encounters with the practitioners of Chicago Footwork and Afrobeats dance music, the author theorizes a Black vernacular approach to the concept of techne. This essay contributes to discourse in the philosophy of technology to document spirituality in viral …
Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape
While podcasts as a storytelling media have exploded in popularity in the West since 2014, the uptake and consumption of this sonic new media was relatively slow in Africa until recently. This article explores amateur and start-up entrepreneurship podcasts that came to dominate the African mediascape during the medium’s coming of age moment between 2014 and 2018. I extend Walter Ong’s observation that broadcast and electronic media recreate the e…
Configuring Ghana’s Diaspora: Deterritorialization, Disjuncture and the Digital
Digital media, diaspora and deterritorialisation have provided important ways to think about contemporary global flows and social ties. Digital diasporas as a unit of study have become especially relevant for social scientists, particularly anthropologists: In this paper, the author argues that digital diasporas represent both online communities and the ICT practices of those living abroad, which seemingly actualise the potential inherent in Cast…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape
While podcasts as a storytelling media have exploded in popularity in the West since 2014, the uptake and consumption of this sonic new media was relatively slow in Africa until recently. This article explores amateur and start-up entrepreneurship podcasts that came to dominate the African mediascape during the medium’s coming of age moment between 2014 and 2018. I extend Walter Ong’s observation that broadcast and electronic media recreate the e…
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back
With the growing prevalence of audiobooks and the growth of the recorded spoken-word industry worldwide, this article highlights the ways in which sound studies scholars and literary critics alike can reconsider the importance of the “talking book” as a key form of oral literature. In this article, we explore the audiobooks of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – two key pieces of Black Atlantic literature in which the aesth…
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
This article proposes the notion of soulcraft as an alternative framing for the work that Africans and African diasporans imbue upon material culture and social projects. Through ethnographic encounters with the practitioners of Chicago Footwork and Afrobeats dance music, the author theorizes a Black vernacular approach to the concept of techne. This essay contributes to discourse in the philosophy of technology to document spirituality in viral …
Configuring Ghana’s Diaspora: Deterritorialization, Disjuncture and the Digital
Digital media, diaspora and deterritorialisation have provided important ways to think about contemporary global flows and social ties. Digital diasporas as a unit of study have become especially relevant for social scientists, particularly anthropologists: In this paper, the author argues that digital diasporas represent both online communities and the ICT practices of those living abroad, which seemingly actualise the potential inherent in Cast…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Configuring Ghana’s Diaspora: Deterritorialization, Disjuncture and the Digital
Digital media, diaspora and deterritorialisation have provided important ways to think about contemporary global flows and social ties. Digital diasporas as a unit of study have become especially relevant for social scientists, particularly anthropologists: In this paper, the author argues that digital diasporas represent both online communities and the ICT practices of those living abroad, which seemingly actualise the potential inherent in Cast…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape
While podcasts as a storytelling media have exploded in popularity in the West since 2014, the uptake and consumption of this sonic new media was relatively slow in Africa until recently. This article explores amateur and start-up entrepreneurship podcasts that came to dominate the African mediascape during the medium’s coming of age moment between 2014 and 2018. I extend Walter Ong’s observation that broadcast and electronic media recreate the e…
Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance
This article proposes the notion of soulcraft as an alternative framing for the work that Africans and African diasporans imbue upon material culture and social projects. Through ethnographic encounters with the practitioners of Chicago Footwork and Afrobeats dance music, the author theorizes a Black vernacular approach to the concept of techne. This essay contributes to discourse in the philosophy of technology to document spirituality in viral …
Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back
With the growing prevalence of audiobooks and the growth of the recorded spoken-word industry worldwide, this article highlights the ways in which sound studies scholars and literary critics alike can reconsider the importance of the “talking book” as a key form of oral literature. In this article, we explore the audiobooks of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – two key pieces of Black Atlantic literature in which the aesth…
From the Grammys to Agbogbloshie: African Viral Dance’s Troubled Circuits
Deep Listening: Podcast Audiences and Affective Resonance in Urban Ghana
Podcasting, with its focus on voices, remains a compelling topic for African studies research, which has historically put orality at the center of the field. Recognizing sparse audience inclusion in existing research on African podcasting, the authors conducted focus groups with listeners in urban Ghana to document consumption practices and attitudes toward this form of new orality. Using the concept “deep listening” drawn from participant commen…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)