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'Echoes From Africa': Abdullah Ibrahim's Black Sonic Geography [PDF]

Kronos, 2023
This article aims to listen, read and move with the South African musician Abdullah Ibrahim by focusing on various works in his corpus that see him weave together a sonic aesthetic and identify sound, space and time as fundamentally intertwined with and ...
Dr Molemo Ramphalile, Thabang Manyike, Dr Gregory Maxaulane   +2 more
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Listening for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Sonic geography and the making of extinction knowledge. [PDF]

Soc Stud Sci, 2023
If an apparently extinct bird calls in a forest, and there are people there to hear it—to record it, even—is it still extinct? The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was last ‘officially’ seen in the United States in 1944, but its extinction continues to be a subject of intense debate between conservation authorities, scientists, and grassroots activists ...
Hunter H.
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Moving sonic geographies: realising the Eerie countryside in music and sound [PDF]

cultural geographies, 2022
This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels. In charting the movement of sound from field recording to music studio, and from rehearsal to performance space, this paper examines the aesthetic and affective geographies that are developed and the consequences of this travel.
Julian Holloway
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Voice: sonic geographies of childhood [PDF]

Children's Geographies, 2017
This article uses the sonic geographies of childhood as an entry point into long-standing and important debates in the sub-discipline on ‘voice’. The article uniquely explores children’s voices from the past through considering a different type of research material – archival audio recordings.
Sarah Mills
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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound [PDF]

Antipode
AbstractThis paper illuminates The Minneapolis Sound's emergence from the urban soundscapes of late 20th century Minneapolis. Turning to the 1960s and 1970s, I trace the genre's geohistorical emergence to a Black diasporic community who found within marginality the possibilities to spatialise an experimental world across the urban margins.
Zuhri James
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Sonic geographies [PDF]

Progress in Human Geography, 2013
Research into the geographies of sound and music has developed over the last 20 years, yet such work largely remains reliant on conventional verbal-textual methods of data collection and dissemination. In this paper, we conduct a review of current approaches to sonic research, demonstrating that the erasure of audio media within geography silences a ...
Gallagher, Michael, Prior, Jonathan
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Native Spaces : A geography of sonic emplacement

cultural geographies
Native Spaces is a location-based audio public art platform created through collaboration between the authors and the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. Aligned with Natchee Blu Barnd’s concept of creative ‘geographic strategies to unsettle settler colonialism’, the project is distinct due to its approach to using sound and ...
Sarah Kanouse, Elizabeth Solomon
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Sonic City: The Evolving Economic Geography of the Music Industry

Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2009
Our research tracks the location of musicians and music establishments in U.S. regions from 1970 to 2004. We find that the music industry has become significantly more concentrated over time. New York and Los Angeles remain dominant locations, with Nashville emerging as a third major center.
Richard Florida, Scott Jackson
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Sonic methods in geography

, 2017
Research into sound—including both musical and nonmusical sound—amounts to a varied body of work that straddles numerous disciplines, including history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, musicology, and ecology. Scholarship focused on sound has also led to the formation of discrete subdisciplines, most notably sound studies, bioacoustics, and ...
Jonathan Prior
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Essential workers and the cultural politics of appreciation: sonic, visual and mediated geographies of public gratitude in the time of COVID-19 [PDF]

cultural geographies, 2020
What do sonic, visual, and mediated forms of public gratitude for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic tell us about the cultural politics of the category “essential worker”? What racial, gender, and class structures and processes shape the content, form, and composition of these collective practices of appreciation? In this paper, I draw on
John Paul Catungal
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