Review: Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by Mack Hagood
Justin Adams Burton · Journal of Popular Music Studies · 2020
Book Review| March 01 2020 Review: Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by Mack Hagood Mack Hagood, Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 288 pp. Justin Adams Burton Justin Adams Burton Rider University Email: [email protected] Justin Burton is the author of Posthuman Rap and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music. Justin's work revolves around pop, hip hop, and dance genres primarily as they relate to race and gender. Justin is associate professor of music at Rider University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2020) 32 (1): 133–136. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Justin Adams Burton; Review: Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by Mack Hagood. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2020; 32 (1): 133–136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2020.32.1.133 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In Hush, Mack Hagood traces the modern history of noise-producing devices that are used to combat unwanted noise. Hagood places a chapter on tinnitus at the beginning of the book to establish a listening praxis that is active—the internally produced sound of tinnitus tends to intensify or wane depending on one's external soundscape—then lays out a narrative of technological developments that use sound to mask or cancel out undesirable sound. This framing draws the reader's attention to modes of listening that position the body in an affective relationship both with its surroundings and with the media that either convey or block out the vibrations of those surroundings. At root in... © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions.2020 You do not currently have access to this content.