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Acoustic jurisprudence : listening to the trial of Simon Bikindi / James E K Parker.
LIBRA KZ1201.B55 P37 2015
Available from offsite location
- 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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