Polisonics : Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound

Lewis, Matt (EDT)/ Massalha, Manal (EDT)

Focal Press（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 244 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032047324

Full Description

Bringing together contributors with backgrounds in ethnography, theatre, design, music, and sound, Polisonics: Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound demonstrates the importance of sound in design and how the sonic offers alternatives to dominant, singular, and technologically determined narratives.

From sonic street interventions to rural field recording, water fountains to community listening sessions and Palestinian Hip-Hop to sound for VR, this book foregrounds participatory modes of making and collective engagement, particularly those rooted in musical cultures. Examining how relational approaches to sound can help reshape paradigms and challenge systemic inequalities, build communities and resist structural injustice.

With chapters on areas including audio description, sound systems, and the use of machine listening as a tool for immigration control, Polisonics will be of interest to activists, academics, and musicians as well as those studying and working in sound design, ethnography, social justice and theatre.

Contents

1. Sounding and Listening in Place - Four Events in the Nottingdale Community After the Grenfell Tower Fire 2. A Manifesto for Integrating Audio Description in Design Practice 3. For Sound To Emanate From Sites Or, Some Notes On Black Sonic Bildung 4. Re-situating Machine Listening: The Question of "Justice" in the Voice Biometry Apparatus of the German Asylum System 5. speaking thr-o-ugh: Putting it out, speaking, listening, disrupting? 6. "Hearing the Difference." Tradition, Futurity, and the Black Time of Sounding in Channel One Sound System's Sessions 7. Ethnographies of Listening: Settler-Colonial Violence, Erasure and Convivial Possibilities 8. Noise (Unk)now(n) 9. Soundwashing