Senior Spotlight: Rebecca Friedlander '17

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

Rebecca Friedlander in the Senior Spotlight: a series on our graduating seniors Why did you major in Religion? I majored in religion because I took a world religions class in high school […]

Responding to the 2016 US Elections

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

The outcome of the 2016 Presidential election was shocking to some, and a surprise to most. However, it is probably not a surprise to anyone who knows us that the REL@UVM faculty have things to say about the […]

Trump 2016: The View from Islamic Studies

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Ilyse Morgenstein-Fuerst  It’s no secret that Donald Trump ran a campaign that stoked Islamophobic sentiments (in addition, of course, to anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, misogynistic, ableist and <a […]

Pan-Indigenous Pipeline Religion

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Todne Thomas Chipumuro In my introductory Religion and Globalization course, our final unit explores what anthropologist Thomas Csordas terms “pan-indigenous religion” or “the surprising […]

What now? Scholarly Work in the Wake of Trump's Election

Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM

By Professor Vicki L. Brennan In the days following the election I felt as though I were in a fog, upset about what seemed to be a validation of the role that misogyny and racism had played in the election, […]

Revisiting the Soundscape Concept

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

What is the soundscape of our lives? What does the soundscape convey about the time and place in which we live? R. Murray Schafer: “We must seek a way to make environmental acoustics a positive study program. […]

John Cage & Fluxus

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

John Cage’s Water Walk:   https://youtu.be/Yybn6iKmYdQ   !–more– Fluxus was an international network of artists, active primarily in the 1960s, interested in overcoming boundaries between […]

John Cage on Silence

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

Here is the video of John Cage that we viewed in class today:

Dark Side of the Cell

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

The media artist Anne Niemetz and the nano-scientist Andrew Pelling have collaborated on a video-installation that uses recordings of cellular sounds. Read more about it and listen to examples at “Dark Side of the […]

Voice & Materiality

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

What is a voice? What are our ideas about the voice and our ways of using the voice?  Voices are tied to bodies. They convey physicality, emotion, and meaning all together. The Problem with Bodies (Gregory […]

Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

 

Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

You can listen to the sounds and songs of the Kaluli, including the examples discussed by Feld in his article “A Rainforest Acoustemology,” on YouTube.

Listen (R. Murray Schafer)

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

Video about R. Murray Schafer to supplement his article about “The Soundscape”: https://www.nfb.ca/film/listen

Capoeira: The Dance of Freedom

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

Documentary about capoeira to supplement the article by Greg Downey:

Testing testing testing

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I want to add a sound file to the blog. This is how I would do it: Did it work?

Edison's Talking Dolls

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

In “The Sounds Around Us,” by Lawrence English, we learned about Ludwig Koch’s recording of a Common Sharma using a wax cylinder recorder. English describes this as the first “field recording” and says that it is […]

Your Brain on Music

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin discusses how our brains interpret music:

Hearing vibrations

Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015

In “Introduction: Hearing Vibrations,” Shelley Trower examines the development of scholarly, scientific, and popular writings about sound as vibration. She is particularly interested in how attempts to detect, […]