Full Description
The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's central presuppositions. The contributors show how approaches to and uses of technology across the global South complicate narratives of technological modernity and how sound-making and listening in diverse global settings unsettle familiar binaries of sacred/secular, private/public, human/nonhuman, male/female, and nature/culture. Exploring a wide range of sonic phenomena and practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors offer diverse ways to remap and decolonize modes of thinking about and listening to sound.
Contributors
Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana MarÍa Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, HervÉ Tchumkam
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Remapping Sound Studies in the Global South / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes 1
Part I. The Technology Problematic
1. Another Resonance: Africa and the Sound of Study / Gavin Steingo 39
2. Ululation / Louise Meintjes 61
3. How the Sea Is Sounded: Remapping Indigenous Soundings in the Marshallese Diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz 77
Part II. Multiple Liminologies
4. Antenatal Aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombia Midwifery / Jairo Moreno 109
5. Loudness, Excess, Power: A Political Liminology of a Global City of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero 135
6. The Spoiled and the Salvaged: Modulations of Auditory Value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner and Benjamin Tausig 156
7. Remapping the Voice through Transgender-Hijra Performance / Jeff Roy 173
Part III. The Politics of Sound
8. Banlieue Sounds, or, The Right to Exist / HervÉ Tchumkam 185
9. Sound Studies, Difference, and Global Concept History / Jim Sykes 203
10. "Faking It": Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums / Tripta Chandola 228
11. Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music / Shayna Silverstein 241
12. Afterword. Sonic Cartographies / Ana MarÍa Ochoa Gautier 261
Contributors 275
Index 277
