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Acoustic jurisprudence : listening to the trial of Simon Bikindi / James E K Parker.

LIBRA KZ1201.B55 P37 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Parker, James E. K., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bikindi, Simon, 1954---Trials, litigation, etc.
Bikindi, Simon.
Trials (Genocide)--Rwanda.
Trials (Genocide).
Entertainers--Legal status, laws, etc.
Entertainers.
Music--Law and legislation.
Music.
Rwanda.
Music and genocide.
Physical Description:
x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Contents:
Part 1 Acoustic Jurisprudence
1 Listening to Law 15
Hatmony 15
Music in the Church 17
Rhetoric as Oratory 19
Laws Institutional Life and the Practice of Judgment 21
Deaf to Law 29
The Turn to Sound 33
Acoustic Jurisprudence 38
2 Listening to the Trial of Simon Bikindi 44
The Rwandan Genocide 44
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 45
Prosecutor v Simon Bikindi 49
Archive and Method 57
Part 2 Song
3 The Musicology of Judgment 63
Rhetoric: Orpheus or the Sirens? 64
Songs without Music 71
Doctrine: The Musicology of International Justice 78
4 A Musical Trial 85
Song in the Judicial Soundscape 87
Song in the Bikindi Case 92
Bikindi Sings his Final Statement 96
Part 3 Speech
5 Voices of Law 111
The Linguistic Voice 112
The Voice of Doctrine 114
The Voice of Evidence 119
The Voice of Rhetoric 120
The Voice of Critique 124
The Singing Voice 128
6 Giving Voice 132
Viva Voce: The Solemn Declaration 133
The Principle of Publicity 140
The Voice and the Letter 145
'The Hearing' 153
Part 4 Sound
7 Judging the Rwandan Soundscape 159
Noise 160
Radio 167
Audio Recording 175
8 The ICTR as Soundscape 180
Architectural Acoustics 182
Wired for Sound 185
Conducting the Soundscape 188
Simultaneous Interpretation 190
Broadcasting and the Archive 202.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-241) and index.
ISBN:
9780198735809
0198735804
OCLC:
908373908

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