Theorizing sound writing

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ML3797 .T46 2017
Status
Checked Out (Due 8/5/2024)

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Summary

The study of listening--aurality--and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also compassionate scholarship.

Contents

Splash of Icarus : theorizing sound writing/Writing sound theory / Deborah Kapchan -- Part One. Writing sound theory. 1. Musicology, performativity, acoustemology / Suzanne G. Cusick ; 2. Acoustic palimpsests / J. Martin Daughtry ; 3. Writing the magnified musicking moment / Michele Kisliuk -- Part Two. Memoir and metaphor as method. 4. Listening to resonant words / Alex Waterman ; 5. Sound commitments : extraordinary stories / Tomie Hahn ; 6. Traffic patterns / David Henderson ; 7. In my solitude : jazz song as "Sound Writing" / Carol Muller -- Part Three. Theorizing sound writing. 8. Women out loud : religious performance in Islamic Indonesia / Anne K. Rasmussen ; 9. "Where the transcendent breaks into time" : toward a theology of sound in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ochá / Katherine Johanna Hagedorn ; 10. Almost imperceptible rhythms and stuff like that : the power of affect in live performance / Ana Pais -- Part Four. Listening and witness. 11. Deadly soundscapes : scripts of lethal force and Lo-Fi death / Deborah Wong ; 12. Listening acts : witnessing the pain (and praise) of others / Deborah Kapchan ; Afterword : sound properties of the written word / Michael Jackson.

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