Remapping Sound Studies
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2019
296 pages
978-1-4780-0219-2 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.
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Remapping Sound Studies
Book
04/2019
Duke University Press
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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 / Hervé 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 María 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 / Hervé 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 María Ochoa Gautier 261
Contributors 275
Index 277
