Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places and Sounds

FAIN: BG-301379-24

University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH 45220-2872)
Angela Kristina Swift (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Kori Hill (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)
Stefan Fiol (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)

A residential program for 60 higher education faculty and humanities professionals to examine migration and the evolution of Cincinnati’s musical landscape.

Cincinnati Sounds explores spaces, places, and sounds in a musical city. Urban planning and development in the "Queen City" has created a dichotomy of painstakingly preserved and restored landmarks simultaneously leaving others lingering only in public memory. The project considers how sound is integral to these spaces, transforming them as flagships of education, music performance, sacred communities, and sociocultural, historical social justice innovation. Participants will triangulate multiple perspectives in multidisciplinary scholarship and sound mapping, site visits, and applications to humanities research and teaching. Workshops will include discussions of reading and listening materials, instruction on storytelling and mapping sound, a keynote address and presentations from Cincinnati area university faculty, arts leaders, authors, historians, librarians, a photojournalist, and visits to historic and modern landmarks defined by curated and oft forgotten music and sound.