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Toward an Anthropology of Ambient Sound

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Par :

Christine Guillebaud

Routledge, Londres, 2017, 240 p.

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: http://milson.fr/routledge_media

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Introduction
• Christine Guillebaud
Multiple Listenings. Anthropology of Sound Worlds

Part 1: Listening into Others
• Olivier Féraud
1. Noising the City: Revealing Neapolitan « Soundciabilities » in Pyrotechnical Practices
• Anne Damon-Guillot
2. Sounds of Hell and Sounds of Eden: Sonic Worlds in Ethiopia in the Catholic Missionary Context, 17th-18th Centuries
• Tripta Chandola
3. An « Obscene » Calling: Emotionality in/of Marginalized Spaces. A Listening of/into ‘Abusive’ Women in Govindpuri (Delhi)

Part 2: Sound Displays and Social Effects
• Christine Guillebaud
4. Standing out from the Crowd. Vocal and Sound Techniques for Catching People’s Attention in an Indian Bus Stand
• Pierre Manea
5. Melodic Refrains in Japanese Train Stations: The Management of Passenger Behavior through the use of Electric Bells

Part 3: Sound Identity and Locality
• Heikki Uimonen
6. Acoustic Communities Represented: Sound Preferences in the Scottish Village of Dollar
• Vincent Battesti
7. Mics in the Ears: How to Ask People in Cairo to Talk about their Sound Universes
• Iñigo Sánchez
8. Mapping out the Sounds of Urban Transformation: The Renewal of Lisbon’s Mouraria Quarter
• Claire Guiu
9. Listening to the city. The Sonorities of Urban Growth in Barcelona

Part 4: Sound Arts and Anthropology
• Jean-Charles Depaule
10. Not just Tones, Noises Too! On Sound Poetry
• Vincent Rioux
11. Tribute to a Footbridge: Contact Dance and Sound Spaces Improvisations in Choisy-Le-Roi

Afterword
• Jean-Paul Thibaud
The Sonic Attunement of Social Life

The multimedia documents of this volume may be consulted at the address: http://milson.fr/routledge_media

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