The Social Life of Loudspeakers is a Special Topics Course that Slaten teaches in the Ethnomusicology Area of The Music Program at Bard College.

This lecture/demonstration video excerpt is from Friday, March 29, 2025 following the week’s reading:

2015. Blanton, Anderson. “Radio as “Point of Contact”: Prayer and the Prosthesis of the Holy Ghost,” in Hittin’ the Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentatonic South. University of North Carolina Press.