Ken Wissoker (@kwissoker.bsky.social)

Antonio L. Madrid, The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening (Duke University Press, 2025) Another illuminating study of sound and music that has recently been indexed by Southwest Humanities, Alejandro L. Madrid's The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening was recently published (in August 2025) by Duke University Press. Madrid's far-ranging book traces a powerful new path in how we think about archives—not as silent repositories of visual or textual heritage, but as repositories of sound that were often never intended to be heard. http://southwesthumanities.com/2025/09/10/antonio-l-madrid-the-archive-and-the-aural-city-sound-knowledge-and-the-politics-of-listening-duke-university-press-2025/