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‘Nothing to practice’: Julius Eastman, queer composition, and Black sonic geographies

cultural geographies, 2021
I trace the musical performances and life of Black, queer composer Julius Eastman, considering Eastman’s oeuvre as a heterotopia defined by both revolutionary freedom and tragic capture. Eastman lived on the margins of 1970s and 1980s avant-garde minimalist music scenes unable and unwilling to comport to white norms of esthetic innovation and cultural ...
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Sonic Geography

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A sonic geography of voice

Progress in Human Geography, 2011
This paper seeks to extend disciplinary investigation by calling for a geography of voice and a politics of speaking and of listening. It explores the different characteristics of voices, their affective and ethico-political forces, and how they make public spaces.
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8. ‘Singing Spirits And The Dancing Dead’: Sonic Geography, Music and Ritual Performance in a Melanesian Community

2011
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Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and Their Limits

The Professional Geographer, 2019
Sound has received much attention from human geographers in recent years. This article opens a debate around the growing body of work on sound as a research method.
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Sonic methodologies for more-than-human geographies: the politics of listening in a traditional slaughterhouse in the UK

cultural geographies, 2023
Sound is an established parameter in animal welfare studies. A sonic ethnographic study of a traditional slaughterhouse in south-west England reveals how animal welfare, conceived as ‘respect for the animal’ at slaughter, is based on sonically attuned practices.
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Towards a Malayan Indian sonic geography: Sound and social relations in colonial Singapore

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015
From the mid-1920s, Indian music scenes developed in Singapore that were not just about the construction of regional and religious forms of Indian diasporic belonging. Drawing upon European, Chinese and Malay influences (musical and otherwise), and performing in contexts that were uncommon in India, Singaporean Indian musicians contributed to non ...
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Listening for Geographies: Music as Sonic Compass Pointing Toward African and Christian Diasporic Horizons in the Caribbean

Black Music Research Journal, 2012
I met my partner in Haiti while I was doing field research on Vodou and music. At the time he was a sound tech for his sister's band, Boukman Eksperyans. We were introduced at the Rex Theater in downtown Port-au-Prince, right on the stage, a few hours before the show.
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Geographies of sonic intersections : mapping Black and Indigenous women's rap music and activism in Cali (Colombia) and Oaxaca (Mexico)

This thesis offers a critical study of rap/urban music by Black and Indigenous women in Cali, Colombia, and Oaxaca, Mexico, from a geographical perspective. Specifically, it focuses on the work of Afro-Colombian singer Cynthia Montaño from Cali, Colombia and Zapotec rappers Mare Advertencia, Yadhii (YBOZ) and Doma Press from Oaxaca, Mexico.
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"Des essais de son": Sonic Geographies of Racial Capitalism in Med Hondo's Soleil Ô

L'Esprit Créateur
Abstract: Through a historically situated close reading of Mauritanian-French filmmaker Med Hondo's first feature-length film, Soleil Ô (1970), this article traces the development of a deeply inventive, decolonial form of audiovisual critique that retains its analytical and affective force. The analytic framework of racial capitalism, I propose, makes
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