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“Living Room Revolutions: Black Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and ‘70s” – A Talk by Jennifer Stoever — Jan 22, 2026 (Events)

Montreal - Concordia University - EV 2.776: Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (EV Building), 1515 Rue Sainte-Catherine W. EV Building, H3G 2W1

SpokenWeb, Literary Listening, and the Media History Research Centre are pleased to present a talk by Jennifer Stoever. Quiet as it’s been kept by music media and academia, from its start Hip Hop was never solely or even predominantly a masculine art. For so many of hip hop’s originators in 1970s New York City, it was the […]

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Phonographic Imaginaries: A Conversation with Renée Altergott (Post)

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I was very excited to initiate a conversation with Renée Altergott because her research dovetails with my own in numerous ways.  That said, my own research has focused on the history of early sound recording media technologies (and spoken recordings) in Anglo-American contexts, and Renée’s research explores this historical period of the medium in French […]

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Sonifying Race, Surveilling Space: The Sonic Color Line & the Listening Ear – Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever — May 30, 2019 (Events)

Vancouver, BC - The SpokenWeb Symposium 2019 - David Mowafaghian World Arts Centre

Opening Plenary of SpokenWeb Symposium 2019 For a very long time now, the United States has—audaciously and impossibly—labored under the illusion that it is a “colorblind” nation: that skin color simply “doesn’t matter” when it comes to employment, or schooling, or opportunity of any sort.  That it is possible to “not see color” when it comes to intimate relationships, to hiring or firing, […]

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