Listening to the Caribbean : Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race / Martin Munro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munro, Martin, author.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; Volume 20.

Liverpool Studies in International Slavery Series ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The primary aim of Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race is quite ambitious: to open up the Caribbean to a "sound studies" approach, and to thereby effect a shift in Caribbean studies away from the predominantly visual biases of most scholarly works and towards a fuller understanding of early Caribbean societies through listening in to the past. Paying close attention to auditory elements in written accounts of slavery and revolts allows us to unlock the sounds that are registered and recorded there, so that not only does one gain a more sensorially full understanding of the society, but also to a considerable extent, the voices and subjectivities of the enslaved are brought out of the silence to which they have been largely consigned. Reading texts in this way, listening to the sounds of language, work, festivity, music, laughter, mourning, and warfare, for example, allows one to know better the lives of the enslaved people, and how, counter to the largely visual power of the planters, the people developed a highly sophisticated auditory culture that in large part ensured their survival and indeed their final victories over the institution of slavery.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Munro, Martin Listening to the Caribbean

ISBN:

9781800854079

1800854072

9781802070811

1802070818