Sound and Music Study Group are meeting online twice monthly for a series of panels, reading groups and discussions addressing (the study of) music and sound. We hope to draw together conversations and struggles that are occurring inside and outside the university. We ask, among other things:

• What is the role of the institution (the university, the radio station, the magazine, the club) in musical culture?
• What does listening, as a historically and culturally determined practice, do? And what has it done?
• How might the involvement of sound and music in social, political and economic formations be thought beyond the model of index or context?
• What is, and what could be, the relationship between music studies and music criticism, broadly conceived?
• Is academic musicology worth saving?

Importantly, we hope to be in but not of the university; as such we are open to all.

For the most part, we will alternate between reading groups and talks, discussions or panels from academics, writers, artists and musicians. Attendance at any meeting is not conditional on having read all or any of the texts under discussion.