Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear

‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind’, wrote composer Pauline Oliveros in 1973. ‘Sound is everybody’s material. Women’s music is inside women. The time has come to draw it out and see what it is. It might not take the forms that are all neatly trimmed up and available, guaranteed to trigger specific emotions.’

Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear is an anthology of essays and text scores by poets, artists, writers and musicians, including Anne Carson, Svetlana Alexievich, Sara Ahmed, Pauline Oliveros and Don Mee Choi. It explores sound and listening through a feminist lens of the body: histories and politics come together with sound and listening in the body; it is the body that struggles and survives, listens and speaks, and in which emotions are triggered.