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

open access: closedcultural 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
Alex Liebman
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Negative Research: Sonic Methods in Geography and Their Limits

open access: closedThe 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.
Key MacFarlane
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A sonic geography of voice

open access: closedProgress 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.
Anja Kanngieser
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Sonic geography in a nature region

open access: closedSocial & Cultural Geography, 2005
This paper considers the sonic geography of a region since the late nineteenth century, taking material from the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England. This area has been defined through competing cultures of nature and leisure, with the presence, absence and nature of sound a key concern.
David Matless
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Listening for Geographies: Music as Sonic Compass Pointing Toward African and Christian Diasporic Horizons in the Caribbean

open access: closedBlack 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.
Elizabeth McAlister
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Sonic geography, place and race in the formation of local identity: liverpool and scousers

open access: closedGeografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2010
The concept of identity has attracted significant academic attention. This article unpacks what constitutes the Scouse identity, how it is constructed and its different dimensions, with particular ...
Philip Boland
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Sonic methodologies for more-than-human geographies: the politics of listening in a traditional slaughterhouse in the UK

open access: closedcultural 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.
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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