ABSTRACT
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: milson.fr/routledge_media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
Listening into Others
chapter 1|18 pages
Noising the City
chapter 2|17 pages
Sounds of Hell and Sounds of Eden
chapter 3|18 pages
An “Obscene” Calling
part II|40 pages
Sound Displays and Social Effects
chapter 4|21 pages
Standing Out From the Crowd
chapter 5|17 pages
Melodic Refrains in Japanese Train Stations
part III|71 pages
Sound Identity and Locality
chapter 6|17 pages
Acoustic Communities Represented
chapter 8|15 pages
Mapping Out the Sounds of Urban Transformation
part IV|37 pages
Sound Arts and Anthropology