Toward An Anthropology Of Ambient Sound (routledge Studies In Anthropology)

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. Multiple Listenings : Anthropology Of Sound Worlds / Christine Guillebaud -- Noising The City : Revealing Popular Neapolitan Soundciabilities In Pyrotechnical Practices / Olivier Féraud -- Sounds Of Hell And Sounds Of Eden : Sonic Worlds In Ethiopia In The Catholic Missionary Context, 17th-18th Centuries / Anne Damon-guillot -- An Obscene Calling : Emotionality In/of Marginalized Spaces : A Listening Of/into Abusive Women In Govindpuri (delhi) / Tripta Chandola -- Standing Out From The Crowd : Vocal And Sound Techniques For Catching Peoples' Attention In An Indian Bus Stand / Christine Guillebaud -- Melodic Refrains In Japanese Train Stations : The Management Of Passenger Behavior Through The Use Of Electric Bells / Pierre Manea -- Acoustic Communities Represented : Sound Preferences In The Scottish Village Of Dollar / Heikki Uimonen -- Mics In The Ears : How To Ask People In Cairo To Talk About Their Sound Universes / Vincent Battest -- Mapping Out The Sounds Of Urban Transformation : The Renewal Of Lisbon's Mouraria Quarter / Iñigo Sánchez -- Listening To The City : The Sonorities Of Urban Gowth In Barcelona / Claire Guiu -- Not Just Tones, Noises Too! : On Sound Poetry / Jean-charles Depaule -- Tribute To A Footbridge : Contact Dance And Sound Spaces Improvisations In Choisy-le-roi / Vincent Rioux -- Afterword : The Sonic Attunement Of Social Life / Jean-paul Thibaud. Edited By Christine Guillebaud. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 (http://milson.fr/routledge_media) milson.fr/routledge_media . This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Romania, Scotland, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of soundscapes, what types of action or agency are attributed to the