Duke Cultural Anthropology graduate students Jay Hammond and Joella Bitter sat down with visiting scholar David Novak (UC Santa Barbara) to discuss his books Japanoise (2013) and Keywords in Sound (2015, co-edited with Matt Sakakeeny) in relation to his backgrounds in experimental music and a wider sound studies subfield. [recorded April 2018]
Supported by a major grant from the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Futures explored possible trajectories of the humanities in the wake of interdisciplinary developments of recent decades, particularly the rapidly changing paradigms and practices in research, teaching, publishing, and public engagement today.