Joella Bitter is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester), working across the anthropologies of sound and music, critical urban environmental studies, intersectional feminist thought, and Afrodiasporic studies. She has published a digital sonic ethnography, Gulu SoundTracks, together with music producer colleagues in Uganda and is currently working on a book about the ordinary aural politics of city-making. You can learn more about her work at joellabitter.com.
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Ethnographic Listening Workshop "Toolkit"
Listening in Toronto Our Ethnographic Listening Workshop was held at 10 a.m. on November 16, 2023, in Toronto as part of the 2023 American Anthropological Assoc... More
In Suspension the City Continues to Stir
Five. Marina Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise takes off from abandoned houses in the LAX Noise Abatement Zone (NAZ) and lands among endangered butterflies, El Segun... More
Notes on ‘Ordinary Schizophonia: Field Recordings as Multimodal Experiment’
[1] Link to ‘Ordinary Schizophonia: Field Recordings as Multimodal Experiment’ [2] We took the 2019 American Anthropological Association (AAA) meetings as an op... More