{"id":848,"date":"2020-03-08T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/?p=848"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:48:18","slug":"sonic-storytelling-a-conversation-with-earl-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stories.umbc.edu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/sonic-storytelling-a-conversation-with-earl-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Storytelling: A Conversation with Earl Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earl Brooks<\/b> is an Assistant Professor of English at UMBC. He uses storytelling in the classroom as a means of exploring sonic narrative and sonic advocacy. Drawing on his background as a musician, Earl adapts traditional English assignments by adding a sound component to them, transforming the work into podcasts or other forms if recorded audio. Earl’s research focuses on composition, sound studies and the rhetoric of Black music. His recent articles include <\/span>Charles Mingus, Rotary Perception, and the \u201cFables of Faubus\u201d<\/a> and <\/span>Duke Ellington\u2019s melodies carried his message of social justice.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I think a lot of students are often surprised to realize that some of the things that they really love or passionate about can be approached from a scholarly perspective. And I think once they’re given those tools, I’ve found that a lot of them are really excited to take this new lens and look at the stuff that they’ve been consuming on a daily or weekly basis, and not maybe realizing that there’s a lot of depth. <\/span>(EB)<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n