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Audible Identities: Passing And Sound Technologies, Pamela L. Caughie
Audible Identities: Passing And Sound Technologies, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
At the March 2008 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections held at Stanford University, audio historians played what they claim is the first recording of the human voice. It is a presumably female voice singing Au clair de la lune, though the distorted quality of the 10-second recording renders the words no more decipherable than the singer’s gender to an untutored ear. The recording was made in Paris in April 1860 on a ‘phonautograph’ invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (aka Leon Scott), nearly 20 years before Thomas Edison patented the phonograph in 1877. Sound waves captured …
"Passing" And Identity: A Literary Perspective On Gender And Sexual Diversity, Pamela L. Caughie
"Passing" And Identity: A Literary Perspective On Gender And Sexual Diversity, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
For the literary scholar as for the gender theorist, truth is what makes sense in terms of a particular narrative. What is true is not simply that which corresponds to the real; rather, what is true is what is accepted as being true within a given discourse, institution, or discipline. Unlike biologists, literary scholars don’t ask “Is it true?” but “How is it true?” This question requires interrogating the normative standards by which claims of truth, authenticity, and legitimacy are established. And that means learning to read people the way many of us have learned to read literature, taking into …
Virginia Woolf: Radio, Gramophone, And Broadcasting, Pamela L. Caughie
Virginia Woolf: Radio, Gramophone, And Broadcasting, Pamela L. Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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