Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies

Both sound studies and Deaf studies depend on something of a divide between hearing and seeing. So, while music historian Bruce Johnson makes a critical point when he writes that, "an auditory rather than a predominantly visual approach to the past produces a different cultural history", such a phrasing risks posing the visual and auditory as at odds with one another. In both sound and Deaf studies, a clean division is also often assumed between hearing and deafness. This chapter considers four major practices that might prompt scholars in sound studies and Deaf studies into new conversation. These practices ask how sound is inferred in deaf and Deaf practice, how reimagining sound in the register of low-frequency vibration can up-end deaf-hearing dichotomies, how "deaf futurists" champion cyborg sound, and how signing, non-speech based communicative practices, and listening might unwind phonocentric models of speech and move us away from "speech communities"

Acoustics · Audiology · Physics · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation · Medicine

• Signed Music in the Deaf Community

  Open Access•Jody H Cripps, Jody Cripps et al.•Journal of Festive Studies•2023

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• Sonic Histories of Occupation

  Open Access•Tan Sooi, I Geroge Blake et al.•Sonic Histories of Occupation•2022

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