Search Results for modes of listening

... listening sound studies modes of listening ways of listening ...

... of the consequences of these approaches for the framing of listeners and listening practices. “Mode” has become a popular term for the designation of particular types or ways of listening in sound studies. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a modern British hospital, the entry draws attention to some...

... Chapter 1 is an ethnography of listening at Cetacea Lab, a whale research station where conservation actors listen for humpback whales to produce scientific evidence to oppose development. The chapter considers how institutions shape ways of listening—including through a “late style” listening...

... This entry presents different modes for understanding the notion of silence. Metaphorically, it is used in different cultures to signal different extremes: a technique of mystical revelation of the self, or, on the other extreme, a sinister resonance that recalls death. As such, silence...

... of intelligibility of his thinking. And this style was, above all, disclosed in the dimensions of his voice, in the resonant sound of his speaking, but also in his thinking and writing. In Hall speaking was a mode of thinking; and his writing had an audible character. Part of the larger project of the chapter...

... of class, language, religion, and locality. By doing so, I explore the moments of failure to define the desires and intimacies among women which escape stable meanings and identities. Furthermore, in imagining queer lives and elsewheres in Pakistan, this essay offers a queer mode of telling...

... The chapter, focusing on the visitor center’s use of documentary film as its primary mode of narrating the bombing attack, opens with a controversy in which the film was challenged by members of Honolulu’s Japanese American community for perpetuating inaccurate views of Japanese American loyalty...

... recognizability as a human activity (performance), object (inscription), and sensibility (mode of listening) can work to elevate its conceptual status above scrutiny. This entry highlights how music has been naturalized in three principal ways: as science, as art, and as performance. In relation to sound studies...

...Technology and Embodiment This chapter explores the experience of improvisation as a process of listening that is first accessed by the nonverbal body and later understood by the verbal brain. A comparison is drawn between the time delay between evoked potentials and cognition (Libet...

... moment in the organization’s history when its producers were asked to refigure their remote Aboriginal constituents as a market under state-driven demands that Indigenous media embrace commercial modes of production. The tensions such demands entail are apparent in two opposing rituals of recognition—one...

... on shortwave receivers. These external concerns articulated with administrative reforms that placed pressure on communities to view ethno-linguistic modes of identification as the surest means of securing their futures. These cross-cutting projects convinced administrators of the need to gain control over...

... hours, over three parliamentary sessions, which riveted the nation as it listened in by radio. Reproduced here are fragments from the beginning of the speech, in which he lays out his brief, as well as from the conclusion, which anticipated the price he would pay for challenging the armed forces. On 17...