ABSTRACT
Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak.
This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and music, including soundscapes, music production, music performance, and mediatisation processes in the context of COVID-19. It represents a first step to understanding how the pandemic and its by-products affected sound domains in terms of experiences and practices, representations, collective imaginaries, and socio-political manipulations.
This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in the realms of music production and performance, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
Accounts
chapter 1|15 pages
Listening to the First Lockdown
chapter 2|10 pages
Together in Discipline and Turmoil
chapter 4|15 pages
Applauses and Banners, Horns and Fireworks
chapter 6|11 pages
Not People but a Sound
chapter 7|10 pages
A Digital Archive of Participatory Location Rhythm Performances
part II|94 pages
Experiences
chapter 8|11 pages
Huapanguitos pa seguir aguantando en cuarentena
chapter 9|15 pages
‘Why do they Dance in the Middle of the Pandemic?’
chapter 12|15 pages
Rethinking Intermedia Practices during the Pandemic
chapter 13|13 pages
Musicians in the Brazilian Pandemic
chapter 14|15 pages
Musical Performance during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
part III|94 pages
Perspectives