{"title":"Into the Sounds of War","authors":"M. Bull","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.9","url":null,"abstract":"“No one ever left a cinema with shell-shock” is an apt summary of Michael Bull’s study of the relationship between fighting troops and civilians; between those experiencing sonic warfare and those consuming an imagining of the sounds of war. Bull builds his chapter around evidence and artifacts from World War I—firsthand testimony of those experiencing the sounds of war; attempts to recreate the sound of industrial warfare through poetry, novels, and film; the propaganda of popular song and theatrical revue; and early attempts to record warfare. Bull establishes a trope of sonic realism, and, throughout, shows us that the imagination of that realism on the home front was merely a simulacrum of the everyday, sonic realism experienced by those on the Front; there remains a distance between testimony and mediated reception no less for the sounds of war than for its horrors.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123656028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burmese Spirit Worship","authors":"J. Becker","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.13","url":null,"abstract":"An exposition of the Burmese Nat Pwe spirit possession ceremony provides the vehicle for Judith Becker to explore the uses of music for imaginative transformations of the autobiographical self. In these rituals, the spirits of historical personages, nats, bestow their powers on the androgynous, transgendered person of the medium, whose autobiographical self is transposed to that of the nat, who is then able to bestow favors on supplicants. Becker makes the case that it is the power of the rituals’ musical accompaniment that provides the means through sensory overload and high emotion to actualize the imaginative realm of the nats.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122553656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Metaphors in the Conceptualization of Musical Knowledge and Learning","authors":"Petter Dyndahl","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.10","url":null,"abstract":"In a chapter that takes its point of departure in a prophetic citation concerning sound and music by Francis Bacon, Petter Dyndahl examines how different epistemological positions and metaphors can contribute to the imagination and understanding of musical knowledge and learning. Dyndahl’s main focus is on discourses regarding these subjects, and he considers how knowledge in music both consists of, and is expressed by and communicated via, musical imagination. In doing so, Dyndahl discusses how different kinds of metaphors and tools are central to learning in general and how the presented approaches and perspectives, in terms of music and music education, are relevant to learning communities and to educational and professional fields of music.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128141442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Anticipatory, Kinesthetic, and Dynamic Aspects of Auditory Imagery","authors":"T. Hubbard","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"Timothy Hubbard offers a discussion of recent findings related to auditory imagery. These findings allow Hubbard to focus on how auditory imagery can occur automatically and involuntarily and can be evoked by different activities and/or triggered by memories from previous musical exposure. Hubbard discusses different forms of auditory imagery (e.g., anticipatory musical imagery, earworms, notational audiation, inner speech, in silent reading of text, auditory verbal hallucinations), and he explores differences between the inner ear and the inner voice, possible contributions of subvocalization to auditory imagery, and potential of auditory imagery as a component in musical practice and performance. Suggestions that auditory imagery reflects dynamic representation are considered, and Hubbard speculates that auditory imagery has a more profound role in a wider range of cognitive activities than is commonly assumed.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124799801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining Sound as the Absolute","authors":"Saam Trivedi","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.1","url":null,"abstract":"Saam Trivedi ponders the Sangita Ratnakara by the Ayurveda physician Sarangadeva. In this thirteenth-century manuscript, Sarangadeva asserts that Sound, identical to the Absolute, is the only fundamental thing in the universe and that all other things are illusory or, at best, some derivative or other manifestation of Sound. While the twenty-first century, non-monist Trivedi is critical of this claim, he finds much to be fascinated by, and, in his dissection of the main points of the Sangita Ratnakara, he offers the reader an imagining of sonic monism that, while far-removed from the orthodoxy of today’s acoustics and natural sciences, might one day come to be seen as inspiration for the latest scientific ideas concerning sound.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131317454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Listener’s Choice","authors":"Ola Stockfelt","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.31","url":null,"abstract":"Ola Stockfelt theorizes listening through discussion of a number of personal cases, such as listening sessions in his car and his observations during film music teaching sessions. Stockfelt suggests that meaning comes before hearing sounds. Listening involves listening for confirmation of what you already know and this allows us to complete the gestalt of a sound even when the full auditory signal is not present. Hearing something, Stockfelt argues, is a cultural conception of reality, and we usually merely imagine that we heard sounds first, whereas we really experienced meaning. The idea that we listen through meaning rather than listen for meaning is further illustrated in studies of storytelling in documentary films.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132680738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sonic Abject","authors":"V. Erlmann","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.16","url":null,"abstract":"Two claims are made by Veit Erlmann in his chapter on sound and violence in the legal imagination. The first claim is that, certainly as regards sound, the concept of the object is ill-defined. Instead, Kristeva’s notion of the abject should be used to describe the place of sound, as there is a repression of the initially ambiguous nature of the subject-object relation. The sonic abject is to be found within the unstable boundary between subject and object. The second claim is that, in law, sound can be seen as an abject. Discussing the prominent role of sound in two cases from international criminal law and US constitutional law, Erlmann demonstrates that sound sits uneasily amid legal discourse about agency and intention.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114944616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Aural Dimension in Comic Art","authors":"Marco Pellitteri","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.26","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting a diegetic and semiotic approach to multisensoriality in comics, Marco Pellitteri discusses the aural dimension of this specific art form. The workings of comics are traced back to Aristotle’s concept of noesis; the mental activity of reading comics, Pellitteri suggests, involves a willingness to actively conceive of images and ideas in one’s mind not least of which are those belonging to the aural dimension. To argue this point, Pellitteri concentrates on the comics medium’s layers of actual or suggested sensoriality and illustrates the sensorial suggestiveness of comics’ graphics by discussing the implied aurality of lettering, fonts, word balloons, visual onomatopoeia, and the representation of music.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125093330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining the Sounds Themselves","authors":"M. Riddoch","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.3","url":null,"abstract":"Malcolm Riddoch investigates the relationship between the auditory imagination and our perception of sound. He states that, from a physical perspective, both imaginary and externally stimulated sound would seem to be the product of neurological processes. From a phenomenological perspective, however, phenomenal sound is fundamentally something that is heard. This apparent paradox leads Riddoch, via the “hard problem of consciousness,” to present and discuss a number of different forms and understandings of “sound” and to eventually posit that the sounds themselves—imagined or externally stimulated—are “nonphysical phenomena disclosed in the lived experience of hearkening to the meaningful sounds one hears in the world.”","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130661820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagination, Multimodality, and Sound","authors":"Joaquim Braga","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.7","url":null,"abstract":"Joaquim Braga deals with the role of sound in multimodal environments and multimodal surfaces. He argues that imagination not only bridges sensory dimensions that are absent from perception but also is central to “the relationship of presence,” that is, the connection between presently perceived sensory input. This involves assessing both the individuating dimension and the relational disposition of sound, which allows sound—through the activation of imagination—to develop sensory relations. Central to his discussion of the function and contribution of sound in different media is the process of “sonic individuation”—a process of individuation of different modalities—that is presented as a precondition for the creation of relations between these modalities.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122790331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}