Will Sound Studies Ever Emerge?

https://jhiblog.org/2021/02/10/will-sound-studies-ever-emerge/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The rhetoric of newness around sound studies further reinforces the hegemony of the eye over the ear. The solution, then, is not to refer back to presumed “pioneering” texts in the field, but to approach the study of sound from a reflexive position. Historians ought not be lured by sound’s supposed novelty—a supposition baked into the ocular/logocentrism of Western humanistic disciplines. Sound is not just an ephemeral, acoustic occurrence, but a method of framing history.

summary: “the language of newness” is inherently colonial