Remapping sound studies / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steingo, Gavin, editor.

Sykes, Jim, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound (Philosophy).

Sound--Social aspects.

Sound.

Sounds--Social aspects.

Sounds.

Noise--Social aspects.

Noise.

World music.

Social aspects.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Genre:

World music.

Physical Description:

viii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The contributors to 'Remapping Sound Studies' intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's central presuppositions. The contributors show how approaches to and uses of technology across the global South complicate narratives of technological modernity and how sound-making and listening in diverse global settings unsettle familiar binaries of sacred/secular, private/public, human/nonhuman, male/female, and nature/culture. Exploring a wide range of sonic phenomena and practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors offer diverse ways to remap and decolonize modes of thinking about and listening to sound.

Contents:

Introduction : remapping sound studies in the global South / Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes

Another resonance : Africa and the study of sound / Gavin Steingo

Ululation / Louise Meintjes

How the sea is sounded : remapping indigenous soundings in the Marshallese diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz

Antenatal aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombian midwifery / Jairo Moreno

Loudness, excess, power : a political liminology of a global city of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero

The spoiled and the salvaged : modulations of auditory value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner, Benjamin Tausig

Remapping the voice through transgender-Hījṛā performance / Jeff Roy

Banlieue sounds, or, the right to exist / Hervé Tchumkam

Sound studies, difference, and global concept history / Jim Sykes

"Faking it" : moans and groans of loving and living in Govindpuri slums / Tripta Chandola

Disorienting sounds : a sensory ethnography of Syrian dance music / Shayna Silverstein

Afterword : sonic cartographies / Ana María Ochoa Gautier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Remapping sound studies

ISBN:

9781478000372

1478000376

9781478000464

1478000465

OCLC:

1033786173