ABSTRACT
Louis Moreau Gottschalk is himself a product of ungovernable geographies. However, Fredrick Starr’s critique does not entirely denounce the possibility that Gottschalk had some intimate engagements in witnessing events that would have occurred Sunday on Congo Square with the aid of Aimee Brusle and/or Sally. Considering sound’s gestures is one way to process the governed and ungoverned dynamic of the bamboula rhythm. Sound is simultaneously governable and ungovernable. Susan Buck-Morrs, in her book Haiti and Hegel, emphasizes how porosity is the inquiry into the ungovernable connections. Sound is unlike a physical body in that it cannot be grabbed and contained. The foray into the variety of concentrations is to consider the broader educational possibilities inquiries into sound presents. Jonathan Sterne’s use of “register” occupies a number of realms in reference to space. Simultaneously, “register” denotes sound’s dimensions while considering the index, as to acknowledge memory.
