The Seminar Podcast

Mack Hagood is a Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University Ohio. He is the author of the book HUSH: MEDIA AND SONIC SELF CONTROL and the host of PHANTOM POWER, a podcast situated at the intersection of sound, politics, and culture.

Gavin Steingo is a professor in the department of music at Princeton University. He is the author of two books, Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa, and Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity. He also co-edited the seminal volume Remapping Sound Studies, and he co-directs the Animal Song Collective.Jacob Smith is a professor in the department of radio/television/film at Northwestern University, where he co-founded the MA program in Sound Arts and Industries. He is the author of many books, including Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media; Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures; and Eco-Sonic Media. He is also the author of two experimental audiobooks: ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene, and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves.

Susan Rogers is Professor and Director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Berklee School of Music. She is the author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You (WW Norton, 2022).Josh McDermott is Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he directs the Laboratory for Computational Audition.

Sarah Nooter is Edward Olson Professor in the Department of Classics, the Program in Theater and Performance Studies, and the Program in Gender Studies at University of Chicago. She is the author of four books, When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2012); The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality (Cambridge University Press, 2023); and How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 2024). She is also co-editor of the volumes Sound and the Ancient Senses with Shane Butler (Routledge, 2019) and Radical Formalisms: Reading, Theory and the Boundaries of the Classical with Mario Telò (Bloomsbury Press, 2024).

We're relaunching the new improved version of The Seminar Podcast for season 2! On today's episode, a conversation between host Nicholas Glastonbury and production/research assistant Sara Gaudino. More to come very soon!The Seminar is a production of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. Find us on the web at seminarpod.org.

Daphne Brooks is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of three books: Jeff Buckley’s Grace, from the 33 1/3 series; Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, and Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.You can find more of Zora Neale Hurston's recorded performances in the digital collections of the Library of Congress.You can also listen to much of the music discussed in the book at this Spotify playlist.The Seminar is a production of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. Find us on the web at seminarpod.org.

Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier is Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at Tulane University. Her books include Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2014). She is a collaborator with the Colectivo Wiwa-Bunkuaneyuman, a collective of filmmakers from the Wiwa community in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Colombia..The Seminar is a production of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. Find us on the web at seminarpod.org.

No-No Boy, the musical brainchild of Dr. Julian Saporiti, is a songwriting and multimedia project that explores the untold histories of Asian America through song and sound. His latest album, Empire Electric, was released by Smithsonian Folkways this past September. His music is available for purchase at Bandcamp, and for streaming wherever you listen to music.The Seminar is a co-production of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University and Sounding Out!. Find us on the web at seminarpod.org.

Nina Sun Eidsheim is Professor of Musicology and founder and director of the PEER Lab at UCLA. Her books are Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015) and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (2019).The Seminar is a co-production of the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University and Sounding Out!. Find us on the web at seminarpod.org.