... the sounds of war, drilling for oil extraction, and explosions in oil fields sonically overlap. It argues that sound is not merely heard in war and extractive zones but are heard vibrationally, specifically for those who have been injured or experienced sensorial trauma. The part ends with the role...

...), in which the voices of anthropology’s interlocutors can be heard and acknowledged and in which both anthropologists and those they study can be transformed through their encounters with one another. ethnography violence care intersubjectivity ...

... In celebration of the band’s fifteenth anniversary, the Grateful Dead performed a run of concerts at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City in 1980. Whereas the distinctive sound of liveness heard on the band’s earliest commercial live releases owed much...

... The history of acoustics, a subfield of physics, can be written as a narrative in which this field of knowledge came to be defined less by the study of sound itself than by the nonaural physical conditions that enable it. Having emerged in the early modern era simply as the science of the heard...

..., Sensibility and Subjectivity, Gender and Trauma, and Representation and Identity. Drawing on theories of performativity (Judith Butler) and phenomenology (Harris Berger), improvisation is examined as a complex site of negotiation, whereby sound and music are heard as both the discursive signs and the embodied...

... The introduction opens with a childhood story about tongues that Charania heard as a little girl. Using this story as a way into the onto-epistemologies her mother's tongue passed on and, more broadly, the brown maternal, this chapter explores the multiple ways the tongue is considered a “bad...

... of knowing that includes indigenous history, values, beliefs, and determinations. Practicing he‘e nalu within the neocolonial reality of the surf tourism industry redistributes what is allowed to be seen and heard by asserting autonomous voices in order to (re)connect. In contrast, the surf tourism...

... to be effective, activists assume traditional gender roles that enable them to be heard in the nationalistic Israeli public arena. Yet these gendered (most often maternal) roles prompt a misreading of their action. The chapter argues that this misreading depoliticizes the activists’ critique, and eventually...

... of the autonomous subject in shaping these attitudes. Using a narrative ethnography, this chapter seeks to allow the stories of women political prisoners to be heard in context of a complex constellation of social and political conditions, with their memories and embodied histories intermingled in their way...

... of song performance as sonic citation, or twice-heard behavior. Sonic citation is not about honoring the memory of black singers. Rather, it is nondiscursive, an invitation to sing in the joyful knowledge of voices one is ever singing along with. black Broadway black church singing technique...

... This chapter considers two of the key concepts of the seminal sound theorist Pierre Schaeffer: reduced listening and the sound object. The former indicates an effort to listen without attending to the context or causes of what is heard. Its correlate is the sound object: sound conceived...

... dedicated to memory. The recordings have also emerged as a point of departure for artistic interventions and offer testimony to the array of sounds—voices, music, noises—that were heard by prisoners of Latin American concentration camps. This chapter interrogates the role of sound in archives' affective...