Teaching Interests
As a teacher Hammond seeks collaboration at the intersection of creative and analytic modalities. For example, in the course, “Sound in Social Life”, students learn the technical aspects of field recording and digital audio editing alongside analytic concepts within Sound Studies and the Anthropology of Sound. Students learn fundamental skills of reading, listening, writing, audio production and the performance of music (for musician/students) on a continuum of knowledge and artistic production. They produce weekly reading abstracts, listening journals and audio pieces, which Hammond incorporates into lectures and class discussions. Guest lecturers include scholars and artists.
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Anthropology of Sound, Critical Improvisation Studies, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies, Sound Studies, Music Technology, Africana Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Urban Studies, Critical Geography
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Anthropology of Sound, Critical Improvisation Studies, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies, Sound Studies, Music Technology, Africana Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Urban Studies, Critical Geography
Past Courses
Sound in Social Life (Spring 2017, Duke)
The goal of this interdisciplinary course is to provide a set of tools to help you think critically about the sonic dimensions of social life. Towards this end, you will produce both academic writing and recorded sound. There will be a special focus on the relation between writing and sound production; sound and text; the conceptual, the aural, and the musical. As such, we will draw equally from academic disciplines (such as cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and social history) and the creative arts (such as audio documentary, sound art installations, sound design [including for film] and experimental forms of music composition such as musique concrète, noise, ambient and electronic music). Part I, The History and Ethnography of Sound, will focus on academic work, while Part II, Art, Knowledge and Composition will focus on overlaps between academic knowledge production and the creative arts.
The goal of this interdisciplinary course is to provide a set of tools to help you think critically about the sonic dimensions of social life. Towards this end, you will produce both academic writing and recorded sound. There will be a special focus on the relation between writing and sound production; sound and text; the conceptual, the aural, and the musical. As such, we will draw equally from academic disciplines (such as cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and social history) and the creative arts (such as audio documentary, sound art installations, sound design [including for film] and experimental forms of music composition such as musique concrète, noise, ambient and electronic music). Part I, The History and Ethnography of Sound, will focus on academic work, while Part II, Art, Knowledge and Composition will focus on overlaps between academic knowledge production and the creative arts.
| sisl_syllabus_2017.pdf |
Gentrification & Culture (Fall 2018, Duke)
Across the globe, poor and working class people are being displaced in a pattern that social scientists have dubbed “gentrification” since the early 1960’s. Often confused for revitalization, gentrification is a set of cultural and economic phenomena in urban spaces that rapidly displace marginalized populations to make way for middle and upper class residents. In this course, we will explore the cultural elements of gentrification such as: how people speak about gentrification in everyday life, the inextricable links between race, gender and economic injustice, the art and expressive culture that springs from gentrifying spaces, and the work of anti-gentrification artists and activists. Texts will include ethnographic, literary, musical and other creative works addressing the social structure and everyday experiences of life in gentrifying cities.
Across the globe, poor and working class people are being displaced in a pattern that social scientists have dubbed “gentrification” since the early 1960’s. Often confused for revitalization, gentrification is a set of cultural and economic phenomena in urban spaces that rapidly displace marginalized populations to make way for middle and upper class residents. In this course, we will explore the cultural elements of gentrification such as: how people speak about gentrification in everyday life, the inextricable links between race, gender and economic injustice, the art and expressive culture that springs from gentrifying spaces, and the work of anti-gentrification artists and activists. Texts will include ethnographic, literary, musical and other creative works addressing the social structure and everyday experiences of life in gentrifying cities.
| syllabus_gentrification___culture.pdf |