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Listening to the archive: Historical geographies of sound

Geography Compass, 2021
Abstract Sound is a fundamental dimension of human experience. However, its ephemeral nature poses specific challenges to historical geographers and other scholars concerned with the study of the past. The last two decades have nonetheless witnessed an increased interest in the spatialities of historical sounds and acoustic ...
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Sounding Places

2019
This collection brings together the work of scholars from around the world who contribute to the ongoing efforts across the field of sound studies and auditory culture to theorize the more-than-representational role of sound and music in assembling various forms of social life: in the forming of communities and places of belonging, in habitual bodily ...
Doughty, Karolina, Duffy, M., Harada, T.
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Shapes and sounds as self-objects in learning geography

Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1978
The pleasure which some children find in maps and map reading is manifold in origin. Children cathect patterns of configuration and color and derive joy from the visual mastery of these. This gratification is enhanced by the child's knowledge that the map represents something bigger than and external to itself.
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Sound society and the geography of popular music

Continuum, 2011
Ola Johansson and Thomas L. Bell, Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, 320 pp., US$99.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-7546-7577-8 In Sound Society and the Geography of Popular Music Ola Johansson and Thomas Bell bri...
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‘Feeling the range’: Emotional geographies of sound in prisons

Emotion, Space and Society, 2016
Abstract Sound, as a modality of emotion, is central to the everyday constitution of space. For an increasing population in Canada, however, incarceration forms the basis of everyday life. This paper explores the connections between sound and emotion as they play out in the under-researched context of prisons. I use a participant’s term, “feeling the
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The world is sound? Geography, musicology and British‐Asian soundscapes

Area, 2005
This paper contributes to recent geographical engagements with sound and music by exploring the benefits of a geographical approach conversant with musicological and ethnomusicological tools and agendas within a specific political and empirical context: British‐Asian cultural politics and contemporary dance music. Doing so, it suggests, sheds new light
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Micro‐Geographies of Sound: Mapping Scalar Knowledge Relations

Anthropology & Education Quarterly
ABSTRACTHow do we methodologically map scalar relations of knowledge and the carceral colonial repressions they encounter and refuse? One possibility is to listen. Drawing on one ethnographic vignette from inside a state‐identified girls' prison school, this reflection privileges sound as a subject, a practice, and an analytic in ethnographic inquiry ...
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Methodologies: sound change; word geography; loanwords versus semantic borrowing

2014
Abstract Some of the most important sound changes in Old English and in Latin are introduced, and their implications for the identification and dating of loanwords examined. Approaches from word geography are considered, and particularly the light they can shed on loanwords shared by a number of different early Germanic languages ...
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Online Sound and Virtual Architecture (Contribution to the Geography of Cultural Translation)

Leonardo Music Journal, 1997
This article starts from the premise that communication is the fundamental human attribute. However, in contemporary conditions, the integrity of the message has taken precedence over the communicative. Exemplary instances are the cult of authenticity in recording engineering and the positioning of the auditor as end-user and focal point of stereophony.
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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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