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Authors | Allyson Rogers

Allyson Rogers is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University. Her primary areas of study are film music and sound recording technology. Her dissertation examines the music and sound of the National Film Board of Canada during the postwar years.

Articles on Amodern by Allyson Rogers

SENSATE SOVEREIGNTY

A Dialogue on Dylan Robinson’s Hungry Listening

Dylan Robinson's Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies emerges from encounters between Indigenous sound performance and Western art music. The book takes aim at the pernicious tendency for the latter to insist upon aesthetic assimilation as the end-goal of these encounters, which far too often means derogating the former’s ontologies and protocols of song. In this dialogue-review, members from the The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group (The CATDAWG) situate the book within sound studies and critiques of settler colonial listening, reflecting on the major conceptual contributions of the book such as sensate sovereignty, hungry listening, and critical listening positionality.