Thinking With An Accent (California Studies In Music, Sound, And Media) (Volume 3)

Thinking with an Accent brings together leading and emerging scholars of media, literature, education, law, linguistics, sound, and politics to theorize accent as an understudied lynchpin of the global cultural economy. It reframes accent as a powerfully coded and yet unexplored mode of perception-one that, properly harnessed, can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care. Accent, this anthology shows, does more than denote geographic, ethnic, or social identity. Accent emerges through listening, mobilizes negotiations of power, and enacts desiring relations. To think with an accent is to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that unfolds the tensions of address within mediated utterances--

• | Author: Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Pavitra Sundar
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 334 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520389735
• | ISBN-13: 9780520389731