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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2016

Andrea L. Stanton  and
G. Carole Woodall
Andrea L. Stanton
Affiliation:
Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver, Denver, Colo.; e-mail: [email protected];
G. Carole Woodall
Affiliation:
Department of History and Women's and Ethnic Studies Program, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colo.; e-mail: [email protected].
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Extract

Over the past decade, historians have finally started listening to the past. Mark M. Smith, an American historian and a leader in this wave of sensory and sound history, has said that historians today are “listening to the past with an intensity, frequency, keenness, and acuity unprecedented in scope and magnitude.” However, scholars of the modern Middle East have yet to join this auditory revolution. Whether working in history, political science, anthropology, or gender studies, they are still largely producing soundproof, devocalized narratives.

Type
Roundtable
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 113 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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References

NOTE

1 Smith, Mark M., “Introduction: Onward to Audible Pasts,” in Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Smith, Mark M. (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2004)Google Scholar, viiii.