Sex Sounds

“Sofer’s work is exemplary… What Sofer offers us in Sex Sounds has profound implications for affect theory and the question of affective politics.”
—Journal of Extreme Anthropology

“Using theory and musicology, the author’s critical position highlights the initial lack of any ethical rules for recording and acknowledging of women’s voices and the slow progress in reclaiming women’s right to first determine and then use these sound profiles in their own way, regardless of gender and style.”
—Neural

“Danielle Shlomit Sofer’s Sex Sounds sets the reader on the hunt for things missing in most discussions of electronic music: sex, sexuality, libidinal drive. Guided by Sofer, once we start looking for the missing element of sex in electronic music, we begin to see it everywhere.”
—Music Works

“Feminist music theory 2.0… Sex Sounds is both a valuable contribution to gender and sexuality studies of music and a provocation for a different kind of music theory.”
—Music Analysis

“Readers interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are expressed in electronic musical forms… will find Sex Sounds a rich [and] insightful book.”
—Technology and Culture

“By integrating perspectives from sound studies, popular music culture, science & technology studies, and gender and sexuality theories, Sex Sounds presents a comprehensive analysis that moves beyond its initial appeal to musicology enthusiasts… Sex Sounds invites readers to grapple with the multifaceted ways in which sound and music intersect with the personal and societal aspects of sexual identity and expression.”
—Journal of Popular Music Studies

Danielle Shlomit Sofer is a music theorist and musicologist and cofounded the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group.

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