Remapping Sound Studies
Published on 26. April 2019
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-4780-0037-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Contributors
Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana MarIa Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, HervE Tchumkam
Contributors
Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana MarIa Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, HervE Tchumkam
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
9 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-0037-2 (9781478000372)
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Gavin Steingo | Jim Sykes
Remapping Sound Studies
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€198.99
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Persons
Gavin Steingo is Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University and the author of Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa.
Jim Sykes is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka.
Jim Sykes is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Remapping Sound Studies in the Global South / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes 1
Part I. The Technology Problematic
1. Another Resonance: Africa and the Sound of Study / Gavin Steingo 39
2. Ululation / Louise Meintjes 61
3. How the Sea Is Sounded: Remapping Indigenous Soundings in the Marshallese Diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz 77
Part II. Multiple Liminologies
4. Antenatal Aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombia Midwifery / Jairo Moreno 109
5. Loudness, Excess, Power: A Political Liminology of a Global City of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero 135
6. The Spoiled and the Salvaged: Modulations of Auditory Value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner and Benjamin Tausig 156
7. Remapping the Voice through Transgender-Hijra Performance / Jeff Roy 173
Part III. The Politics of Sound
8. Banlieue Sounds, or, The Right to Exist / HervE Tchumkam 185
9. Sound Studies, Difference, and Global Concept History / Jim Sykes 203
10. "Faking It": Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums / Tripta Chandola 228
11. Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music / Shayna Silverstein 241
12. Afterword. Sonic Cartographies / Ana MarIa Ochoa Gautier 261
Contributors 275
Index 277
Introduction. Remapping Sound Studies in the Global South / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes 1
Part I. The Technology Problematic
1. Another Resonance: Africa and the Sound of Study / Gavin Steingo 39
2. Ululation / Louise Meintjes 61
3. How the Sea Is Sounded: Remapping Indigenous Soundings in the Marshallese Diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz 77
Part II. Multiple Liminologies
4. Antenatal Aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombia Midwifery / Jairo Moreno 109
5. Loudness, Excess, Power: A Political Liminology of a Global City of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero 135
6. The Spoiled and the Salvaged: Modulations of Auditory Value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner and Benjamin Tausig 156
7. Remapping the Voice through Transgender-Hijra Performance / Jeff Roy 173
Part III. The Politics of Sound
8. Banlieue Sounds, or, The Right to Exist / HervE Tchumkam 185
9. Sound Studies, Difference, and Global Concept History / Jim Sykes 203
10. "Faking It": Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums / Tripta Chandola 228
11. Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music / Shayna Silverstein 241
12. Afterword. Sonic Cartographies / Ana MarIa Ochoa Gautier 261
Contributors 275
Index 277