Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound
by Christine Guillebaud
This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of action or agency are attributed to them, and what bodies of knowledge exist concerning them. Contributors shed new light on these sensory environments by focusing not only on their form and internal dynamics, but also on their wider social and cultural environment. The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: milson.fr/routledge_media.
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Author Biography
Christine Guillebaud is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientifi c Research (CNRS), and member of the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CREM-LESC), based at the University of Paris Nanterre, France.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Multiple Listenings Christine GuillebaudPart I: Listening into Others1. Noising the City Olivier Féraud2. Sounds of Hell and Sounds of Eden Anne Damon-Guillot3. An "Obscene" Calling Tripta ChandolaPart II: Sound Displays and Social Effects4. Standing out from the Crowd Christine Guillebaud5. Melodic Refrains in Japanese Train Stations Pierre ManeaPart III: Sound Identity and Locality6. Acoustic Communities Represented Heikki Uimonen7. Mics in the Ears Vincent Battesti8. Mapping out the Sounds of Urban Transformation Iñigo Sánchez9. Listening to the City Claire GuiuPart IV: Sound Arts and Anthropology10. Not Just Tones, Noises Too! Jean-Charles Depaule11. Tribute To a Footbridge Vincent RiouxAfterword: The Sonic Attunement of Social Life Jean-Paul Thibaud
Review
"Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound is a nice and welcome addition to a steadily growing corps of literature on sounds in and of the city. As scholarly reflection and theoretical deepening are profoundly important for me (and, I think, for the entire field of sound studies as well), the contributions written by Chandola, Guillebaud, Battesti, and Thibaud stand out as they go beyond the mere noticing of specific sonic events."- Marcel Cobussen, Journal of Sonic Studies
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"Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Soundis a nice and welcome addition to a steadily growing corps of literature on sounds in and of the city. As scholarly reflection and theoretical deepening are profoundly important for me (and, I think, for the entire field of sound studies as well), the contributions written by Chandola, Guillebaud, Battesti, and Thibaud stand out as they go beyond the mere noticing of specific sonic events." - Marcel Cobussen, Journal of Sonic Studies
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