{"title":"Mestizaje, transculturation, anthropophagy, and the lower senses","authors":"Cristóbal F. Barria Bignotti","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2093570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2093570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mestizaje, transculturation, and anthropophagy were among the most widespread terms used to refer to Latin American culture during the twentieth century. This article analyses how each of these terms emerges linked to one of the so-called lower senses (touch, smell, and taste). The recognition of a mestizo culture was based on the distinction between tactile and visual experiences; the formulation of the term transculturation emerges from the olfactory and gustatory experiences of sugar and tobacco; and the proposal of the anthropophagous movement emerges from a shared experience of savoring. In this article we propose that the affiliation of these terms with each of the “lower” senses is not a coincidence, but a reaction to the sensory hierarchies that underpin colonialism. Analyzing the senses’ role in these terms’ emergence will allow us to unveil a sensory dimension through which a generation of authors felt and valued a “Latin American culture.”","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"29 1","pages":"303 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87121881","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":"Who feels it knows it: Black bodies and the sensory experience of the dance-hall","authors":"Michael Mcmillan","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2073665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2073665","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through post-war Caribbean migration sound system culture has creolised the material culture of the dance-hall space in terms of sartorial aesthetics of raver dressing up to go out dancing, the sonic vibrations of bass, and the corporeality of the dance-floor. This began with music played on the radiogram in the front room, where house parties and bluesparties took place in the domestic interior, and eventually the public domain of clubs and dance-halls where sound systems played. The ongoing policing of these spaces of dancing Blackbodies recycles colonial tropes about fear and desire in the Britishimaginary that intersect race, class, gender and sexuality. This isan embodied knowing of ‘who feels it, knows it’, which informs the unpacking in this review of the sensory experience of Black bodiesin the dance-hall, and its material culture. From a self-reflexive perspective, this approach also draws on my lived experience as a raver, as well as my online Writers Mosaic guest edition Sonic Vibrations: Sound system culture, lovers rock and dubthat includes contributions from writers, artists, sound women, choreographers and scholars (McMillan, 2021) and installation based exhibition Rockers, Soulheads & Lovers: Sound systemsback in the day (McMillan, 2015-16).","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"24 1","pages":"223 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76317470","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":"“Hearing” ahead of the sound: How musicians listen via proprioception and seen gestures in performance","authors":"Sarah Maslen","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2065157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2065157","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses the peculiar temporal challenges that musicians face in performance and its implications for perception. In a performance, there is routinely no time out, no possibility of stopping and redoing. Players have to “hear” before notes sound, so they can organize their bodies to fit in. My analysis identifies three strategies that players adopt to take the load off their ear. Players listen via the seen gestures of others that signify what should be heard/played. They hear the music by feeling the rhythmic pulse. Lastly, they hear ahead through their proprioceptive sense of how they are organizing their bodies to make a sound. These observations show how players’ sense of their sound, crucial to the achievement of social order in performance, is achieved through largely hidden phases that organize hearing in relation to what we typically conceptualize as other sensory modalities.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"42 1","pages":"185 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76417317","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":"Listening to clothing: from sonic fashion archive to sonic fashion library","authors":"Vidmina Stasiulytė","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2073675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2073675","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Fashion is primarily a visual ontology consisting of definitions, theory and methods that are based on visual language. This research revises fashion by approaching it from a different – sonic – perspective wherein sound is considered as an intrinsic part of the wearer’s experience. This research opens new avenues for design thinking with ears rather than eyes. This article briefly introduces the research methods I have used to collect and reflect clothing and fashion from the perspective of listening rather than seeing, sounding rather than showing, and is a form of rethinking and redefining fashion by starting with the statement that dress is sound. The dressed body is considered to be a temporal form that is expressed within the sound. This article presents a study of collecting different sonic expressions of clothing, accessory and footwear; analyzing and grouping the sonic expressions – developing sonic fashion archive into a sonic fashion library.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"74 1","pages":"228 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85819672","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":"Poetic listening, writing, and knowing the cry of the senses: listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics","authors":"Alejandra Bronfman","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2073664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2073664","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"258 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77187156","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":"Sensing the pandemic: revealing and re-ordering the senses","authors":"William Tullett, Hannah McCann","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2065159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2065159","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reviews an assembled archive of the literature published to date on the sensory dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as sensory scholars have often highlighted periods of sensory revolution, we find that the recent pandemic has augured some notable shifts, albeit often on the more micro and domestic scale. We present a five-sense sensorium that offers an overview of how the senses have been engaged with by scholars during the pandemic, and what the major issues and themes have been. Drawing on the literature, we suggest that there have been shifts in our sensate experiences and an increased awareness of the sensory dimensions of daily life that may usually go unnoticed. However, we also note the many sensory-related inequalities have been revealed over this period, which continue to unfold unevenly as the pandemic continues. We argue that going forward sensory scholars ought to attend to these questions of inequality, as well as tracking the possible undoing of some of the sensory revolutions that may have taken place so far.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"14 1","pages":"170 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75316255","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":"Ways of seeing: the reflection of history in contemporary Chinese photography","authors":"Xiongbo Shi","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2068830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2068830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"55 34 1","pages":"216 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88492925","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":"From the fairground sensorium to the digitalization of bodily entertainment: commercializing multisensory entertainments involving the bodily senses","authors":"C. Spence","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2066434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2066434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Entertaining the bodily senses by means of the deliberate stimulation of the proprioceptive, kinesthetic, and/or vestibular senses/systems has long been the focus of many of the (mechanical) rides found on the fairground and at the theme park. Although the history of kinaesthetic thrills and proprioceptive pleasures stretches back to the turn of the 20th Century, and, despite the growing interest in digital stimulation (e.g. virtual reality, the Metaverse, etc.), little progress has, as yet, been made in terms of effectively stimulating the bodily senses digitally (e.g. in the home environment) as part of a commoditization of multisensory entertainments. Indeed, it may simply not be possible to digitally elicit the total immersion that one experiences in a well-designed theme-park/fairground ride. Nevertheless, approaching that goal will likely require a recognition of the fundamentally multisensory nature of the experience delivered by the unique sensorium that one finds on the working fairground. And, as we will see later, the contribution of the non-bodily senses is something that is often neglected when researchers have studied such bodily sensations in the laboratory, or else foregrounded them in an artistic, setting.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"20 1","pages":"153 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85165930","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":"Any Port in a Storm; how the sounds of the ocean played through sound conditioners offer more than just a sleep aid","authors":"A. Harris","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2065158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2065158","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Relationships with the ocean have a complex legacy that impacts much of our modern lives. John Durham Peters argues that the ocean contributes much toward our understanding of ourselves, even calling it the “medium of all media” because it is from there that we once emerged. In considering one particular form of technology that draws from the ocean for its success, this paper considers the role of sound conditioners and their use of ocean sounds to combat insomnia. From a soundwalk along the ocean front conducted in person, to examining the impetus for the original sound conditioner and recordings of the ocean, a brief media history is undertaken to give context. The main body of the paper covers three areas: by drawing on affect theory we understand the emotional impacts of the technology; by engaging with colonial history the inherent legacy of extractivism is revealed; and finally by looking at these mediations through Indigenous perspectives, we can see the embedded history clearly and find ways to productively move forward. This paper aims to understand what it means to listen to a recorded, manipulated, edited sleep soundtrack, and why we have need for such a tool.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"14 1","pages":"197 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81711961","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}