Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1835260
Constance Wallace
{"title":"Philosophy and theory of sounding statuary","authors":"Constance Wallace","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1835260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1835260","url":null,"abstract":"Ryan McCormack has added to the Perspectives on Sensory History series with his new volume on sounding statues. McCormack specifically posits several interesting theories that underlie the complica...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"100 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87505862","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-14DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1835075
W. Braun
{"title":"The Utopian promise of pop","authors":"W. Braun","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1835075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1835075","url":null,"abstract":"Agnes Gayraud has a bone to pick with Theodor Adorno and other critics of pop music. Though Adorno’s major critiques from the 1940s precede contemporary iterations of pop, his view of the genre as ...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"267 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74778384","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-13DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1835031
Carljohnson G. Anacin
{"title":"Ensounding politics, religion and culture in Southeast Asia","authors":"Carljohnson G. Anacin","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1835031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1835031","url":null,"abstract":"Southeast Asia is very diverse in cultural practices and identities. Hearing Southeast Asia recognises this diversity through presenting ways of listening and contextualising sounds in particular s...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"256 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81119701","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-13DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1835030
Peter Krapp
{"title":"Aural history - long distance connections in sound studies","authors":"Peter Krapp","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1835030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1835030","url":null,"abstract":"Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing is a carefully designed slim volume, and a welcome publication in sound studies, though it is no conventional book. At its core, it is a transcription of six podca...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86974272","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1831154
T. Rice, S. Feld
{"title":"Questioning Acoustemology: an interview with Steven Feld","authors":"T. Rice, S. Feld","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1831154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1831154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this conversation transcript, Tom Rice asks Steve Feld a series of questions about “acoustemology”, a term Steve coined and which has become a key concept in sound studies. Referring to “acoustic epistemology”, a “knowing-with and knowing-through the audible”, acoustemology emerged in the context of Steve’s work on the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea and their intricate knowledge of the sounds of their rainforest environment. It has since been applied by Steve, and many others, in studies of sound in a wide variety of settings. Tom asks questions that have arisen as he tries to explore and clarify the implications of the term. For instance, are acoustemologies invariably culturally embedded, or can they also be understood to emerge independently of culture? To what extent are acoustemologies shaped by individual and personal preferences, experiences and abilities? Is it possible for one acoustemology to end and another begin or do acoustemologies merely shift in terms of the sounds to which they are orientated? Answering with illustrations from his own intellectual journey, Steve presents acoustemology as an open-ended concept which is generative rather than prescriptive and which invites ongoing empirical research and interdisciplinary discussion.","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"119 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86064329","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1831803
Iain Campbell
{"title":"“Things begin to speak by themselves”: Pierre Schaeffer’s myth of the seashell and the epistemology of sound","authors":"Iain Campbell","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1831803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1831803","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper considers the role of myth and phenomenology in Pierre Schaeffer’s research into music and sound, and argues that engagement with these themes allows us to rethink the legacy and contemporary value of Schaeffer’s thought in sound studies. In light of critique of Schaeffer’s project, in particular that developed by Brian Kane and Schaeffer’s own apparent self-disavowal, this paper returns to Schaeffer’s early remarks on the “myth of the seashell” in order to examine the conditions of this critique. While Kane argues that Schaeffer’s recourse to myth, coupled with his adoption of Husserlian phenomenology, leads to a closure of his inquiry and a failure to accommodate the contingency of his position, this paper argues that Schaeffer’s myth of the seashell brings into focus an open-ended, motivating phenomenological problem concerning subjectivity and objectivity that runs through his thought. Drawing on the philosophical work of Gaston Bachelard and Gilles Deleuze, this paper considers the epistemological significance of this moment in Schaeffer’s thought, suggesting a “problematic” account of the myth of the seashell that puts Schaeffer into conversation with contemporary work in epistemology.","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"100 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84220265","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-09-02DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1804680
Atau Tanaka
{"title":"The immigrant:","authors":"Atau Tanaka","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1804680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1804680","url":null,"abstract":"When asked to review the album Foreigner, by Kaffe Matthews, I felt fortunate to have heard the music live. In understanding this release as a reflection on her move from her native England to beco...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"144 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90193055","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1794650
F. Dennis
{"title":"Cooking pots, tableware, and the changing sounds of sociability in Italy, 1300–1700","authors":"F. Dennis","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1794650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1794650","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers how the sounds produced by the preparation and consumption of meals in Italy changed between around 1300 and 1700. It argues that by focusing on sound, and by using ecological approaches, we can rediscover obscured connections between different categories of material objects. By examining material and textual evidence for three categories of objects associated with cooking and dining – metalwork, ceramics, and glass – the article traces changes in the material cultures of kitchen and table, and the clear impact these changes had on domestic soundscapes. It considers these sound-producing objects as agents of social interaction, exploring the social relationships they constructed, and the role sound played in those relationships. The article then focuses on the practices of cooking and dining, and the way they shaped the sound of objects. Finally, the article situates objects and social practices within the spatial context of the home, tracing an increasing impetus to manage and control specific types of sound in relation to gender. In the discourse on hospitality, noise came to signify a badly-managed, and therefore morally dubious, household, while silence testified to decorous and authoritative domestic management.","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"174 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87329638","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1790730
Elizabeth Navarra Varnado
{"title":"Half a Million Strong: “forgotten” festivals punch through Arnold’s critical history of festivals","authors":"Elizabeth Navarra Varnado","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1790730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1790730","url":null,"abstract":"In Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from Woodstock to Coachella, Gina Arnold provides a critical rock festival timeline in an entertaining and informative manner, while investigating the dee...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"268 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75751107","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}
Sound StudiesPub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/20551940.2020.1794332
Guillaume Heuguet
{"title":"Electronic music history reloaded: Ishkur’s online “Guide to electronic music 3.0”","authors":"Guillaume Heuguet","doi":"10.1080/20551940.2020.1794332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2020.1794332","url":null,"abstract":"Ishkur Guide to Electronic Music, by Kenneth John Taylor, https://music.ishkur.com/ In August 2019, the Ishkur Guide to Electronic Music had its last official update (3.0), a variety of media speci...","PeriodicalId":53207,"journal":{"name":"Sound Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"275 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89210421","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}