Bangkok is ringing : sound, protest, and constrainst / Benjamin Tausig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tausig, Ben, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Thailand--Bangkok--History.

Protest movements.

Demonstrations--Thailand--Bangkok--History.

Demonstrations.

Sounds--Social aspects--Thailand--Bangkok.

Sounds.

Music--Social aspects--Thailand--Bangkok.

Music.

Thailand--Politics and government--1988-.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'Bangkok Is Ringing' is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with dissidents in Bangkok and beyond, the book analyses how political dissidents must be sensitive to the ways that their sounding is constrained and channeled.

Contents:

Introduction: on sound, protest space, and constraint

Completely packed in

Red sunday: power and connections

Atrocity broadcasts

Wireless road and the ground of modernity

Megaphone singing

The megaphonic Somsak Sangkaparicha comes by his goddamn self

A quiet mourning: the poetry of dynamics

Whistles

Vehicular stereo systems

Developing musical economies I: CD vendors

Developing musical economies II: stage musicians

Spontaneous chants

Developing musical economies III: Mr. Bear

Surveillance

Outer space

The vanishing point

Conclusion: on mediated spatiality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-084755-7

0-19-084756-5

0-19-084754-9