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LITERATURE & Journals
Resonance: The journal of sound and culture
Sound studies: An interdisciplinary journal
Intonations
Journal of sonic studies
Abramo, Joseph. "Music Education That Resonates: An Epistemology and Pedagogy of Sound." Philosophy of Music Education Review 22, no. 1 (2014): 78-95. doi:10.2979/philmusieducrevi.22.1.78.
Attali, Jacques. Noise: The political economy of music. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1985.
Born, Georgina, ed. Music, sound and space: Transformations of public and private experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Bull, Michael, Les Back, and David Howes, eds. The auditory culture reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Bull, Michael. Sound moves: iPod culture and urban experience. London: Routledge, 2007.
Clarke, Eric F. Ways of listening: An ecological approach to the perception of musical meaning. New York: OUP, 2005.
Chion, Michel, and Claudia Gorbman. Audio-vision: Sound on screen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Chion, Michel. Sound: An acoulogical treatise. London: Duke University Press, 2015.
Cox, Christoph. Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
edwards, jashen i., "Soundcurrents: Exploring sound’s potential to catalyze creative critical consciousness in adolescent music students and undergraduate music education majors" (2023). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 9110.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9110
Edwards, Jashen and Rebecca Rinsema. "Exploring Sonic Meaning and Embodiment in Human Cultural Transmission From a Pedagogical Perspective." Frontiers in Communication 6 (2021): 671486.
Eidsheim, Nina Sun. Sensing sound: Singing and listening as vibrational practice. London: Duke University Press, 2015.
Fink-Jensen, Kirsten. "Attunement and Bodily Dialogues in Music Education." Philosophy of Music Education Review 15, no. 1 (2007): 53-68. www.jstor.org/stable/40327268
Furlonge, Nicole Brittingham. Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Gershon, Walter S. Sound curriculum: Sonic studies in educational theory, method, & practice. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Gershon, Walter and Peter Appelbaum. “Resounding Education: Sonic Instigations, Reverberating Foundations.” Educational Studies 54, no. 4: 357-366. DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2018.1473870
Hill, Stuart Chapman. "A “sound” spproach: John Cage and music education." Philosophy of Music Education Review 26, no. 1 (2018): 46-62. doi:10.2979/philmusieducrevi.26.1.04
Howes, David. Empire of the Senses. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005.
Howes, David, and Constance Classen. Ways of sensing: Understanding the senses in society. New York: Routledge, 2013.
James, Robin. The sonic episteme: Acoustic resonance, neoliberalism, and biopolitics. London: Duke University Press, 2019.
Kane, Brian. Sound unseen: Acousmatic sound in theory and practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Kassabian, Anahid. Ubiquitous listening: Affect, attention, and distributed subjectivity. Berkeley, CA: UC Press, 2013.
LaBelle, Brandon. Sonic agency: Sound and emergent forms of resistance. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2018.
LaBelle, Brandon. Acoustic territories: Sound culture and everyday life. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Lingold, Mary Caton, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien, eds. Digital sound studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
McFerran, Katrina, Philippa Derrington, and Suvi Saarikallio, eds. Handbook of music, adolescents, and wellbeing. New York: OUP, 2019.
McRae, Christopher. Listening for Learning: Performing a Pedagogy of Sound and Listening. New York: Peter Lang, 2021.
Novak, David, and Matt Sakakeeny, eds. Keywords in sound. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
Oliveros, Pauline. Deep listening: A composer's sound practice. New York: IUniverse, 2005.
Paynter, John. Sound & structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Paynter, John, and Peter Aston. Sound and silence: Classroom projects in creative music. Cambridge UP, 1970.
Pinch, Trevor, and Karin Bijsterveld, eds. The Oxford handbook of sound studies. New York: OUP, 2012.
Recharte, Matias. "De-centering Music: A"sound education"." Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education 18, no. 1 (2019).
Rinsema, Rebecca. "De-sacralizing the European: Music appreciation (then) and music listening (now)." Music Education Research 20, no. 4 (2018): 480-489.
Rinsema, Rebecca. Listening in action: Teaching music in the digital age. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Rinsema, Rebecca. "Toward an ecological view of musical creativity for music educators." Journal of Aesthetic Education 55, no. 2 (2021): 96-114.
Rodriguez, C.X. (2017). The 21st-Century music conservatory: Challenges and changes. In Carlos Xavier Rodriguez (ed). Coming of Age: Teaching and Learning Popular Music in Academia. Ann Arbor: Maize Books.
Schafer, R. Murray. The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Steingo, Gavin, and Jim Sykes, eds. Remapping sound studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
Steintrager, James A., and Rey Chow, eds. Sound Objects. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
Sterne, Jonathan, ed. The sound studies reader. London: Routledge, 2012.
Sterne, Jonathan. MP3: The meaning of a format. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
Sterne, Jonathan. The audible past: Cultural origins of sound reproduction. London: Duke University Press, 2003.
Stockfelt, Ola. "Adequate modes of listening." in Popular music: Critical concepts in media and cultural studies, edited by Simon Frith, 375-91. London: Routledge, 2004.
Thibeault, Matthew D. "Sound Studies and Music Education." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 51, no. 1 (2017): 69-83. doi:10.5406/jaesteduc.51.1.0069.
Voegelin, Salomé. Sonic possible worlds: Hearing the continuum of sound. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Wöllner, Clemens, ed. Body, sound and space in music and beyond: Multimodal explorations. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2017.
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
ISME 2022:
Sounding (In)Visible Voices in Music Education: Recalibrating Music Fundamentals
w/ jashen edwards, Jasmine Henry, Antia Gonzalez Ben, Rebecca Rinsema
ISME 2024:
Sustaining Resonance via Sound and Sensuous Scholarship
w/ jashen edwards, Laura Menard, Antia Gonzalez Ben, Rebecca Rinsema
ISME 2026:
Sounding Unity and Building Bridges across Music Education: An Exploration of Sonic Practices within the Field
w/ jashen edwards, Laura Menard, Doug Friesen, Johanna Abril, Nicolas Coffman, Colleen Sears, Rebecca Rinsema
Contemporary Sound Studies scholarship emerged within music education in the early 2010s. Hickey (2012) drew from Schafer (1976), Cage (1973) and Oliveros (2005) to develop sonically-inspired composition pedagogies; Rinsema (2012, 2017) drew from early sound studies scholars Bull (2005), Clarke (2005) DeNora (2000), employing sonic concepts and everyday listening practices (Integration in Consciousness Model) to develop listening pedagogies; Thibeault (2012, 2013) identified the 'postperformance world' through a sound studies theoretical frame. In the mid 2010s, Abramo (2014; 2015) and Thibeault (2017) called for connections between the two fields. In the late 2010’s, Hill (2018) and Recharte (2019) applied sound frameworks to improvisation and participatory music making practices in educational contexts, with Recharte specifying the de-centering of ‘music’ in music education and replacing it with 'sound.'
A growing cohort of music education scholars explores sound in research and teaching (edwards,
2023, 2025; edwards & Murray, 2023; Friesen & Menard, 2024; González Ben, 2023; Rinsema
& edwards, 2021; edwards, 2025; Veloso, 2020, 2023, 2025). In 2021, Rebecca Rinsema and jashen edwards co-organized the first Sound, Meaning, Education (SME) conference in 2021, placing so-called 'pioneers' in sound studies in direct relationship with music education researchers, inviting reflections on music and sound beyond notation and providing a conceptual opening to consider music pedagogies through the sonic. SME 2023 focused on improvisation’s potential in sound pedagogies. Delegate presentations are featured in a peer-reviewed special issue published by the Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation journal. SME 25 focused on sound, physicality, and embodied ways of sensing, knowing, and being, including topics around climate justice, US immigration and border issues, and AI. Three peer-reviewed symposia presentations on sound and music education were convened by jashen edwards for ISME 2022, 2024 and 2026, with a Special Interest Group (SIG) established in 2026. The SME conferences, falling on the odd years, and the ISME/SIG, falling on even years, allow for the global community of educators, scholars, and artists working at this intersection to convene in-person annually.