[Commlist] New Book: Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, */Hush: Media 
and Sonic Self-Control/* (Duke University Press), which outlines how 
noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, 
nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the 
ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the 
desire to block certain sounds are informed by ideologies of race, 
gender, and class.


“Steering a path between ethnography and history, /Hush/ considers the 
strange status of sounds to be heard but not listened to. Throughout, 
Mack Hagood wonders at the affective power of sound as a presence or 
absence and as a tool for listeners as they negotiate their embedded 
existence in the world with the social demand to be autonomous, 
self-managing subjects. /Hush/ is challenging and imaginative; read it 
and you will learn to think differently about sound, noise, silence, and 
meaning.” — *Jonathan Sterne*


For more information, and to order the paperback at a 30% discount, 
please visit https://www.dukeupress.edu/hush and enter coupon code 
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-misinterpellated-subject>*E19HUSH* during 
checkout.


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