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... The introduction establishes the main interventions the book seeks in relation to emergent interests in sound as a site of environmental governance/politics. It outlines the book’s core theoretical contributions: sonic materialism, sonic capital, mediation, and limits. It then overviews...

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... This chapter focuses on how what we hear relates to the material cause of the sound heard. Some sounds are rich in what the author calls “materializing sonic indices,” that is, sonic information about a given sound’s source. Other sounds are much less informative about the nature and even...

... Chapter 3 presents and analyzes the acoustic worlds of the Ga religious community and Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians in Accra. Drawing on ethnographic material and secondary sources, it discusses the practices and theologies associated with sound and its absence in those two traditions...

..., on the one hand, makes us insensitive to certain sonic differences and variables by imposing selective hearing and focusing our attention on the message rather than the material of language. Yet, at the same time, language leaves a sonic remainder: the voice. The chapter then goes on to consider how we...

...; and cases where action and sound are not isomorphic. feedback control audio-phonatory loop isomorphism This chapter focuses on how what we hear relates to the material cause of the sound heard. Some sounds are rich in what the author calls “materializing sonic indices,” that is, sonic...

...: sound conceived as a phenomenon in itself, independent of materiality. These concepts led Schaeffer to attempt a new classification and description of sounds, in which the traditional aspects of musical sound (pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre) would be rethought in different terms: mass...

..., it shows how language, on the one hand, makes us insensitive to certain sonic differences and variables by imposing selective hearing and focusing our attention on the message rather than the material of language. Yet, at the same time, language leaves a sonic remainder: the voice. The chapter then goes...

... Looking back at Phonograpies almost ten years after its initial publication, this chapter gives a broad overview of the (lack of) interaction between Black studies and sound studies. Phonographies sonic technologies sound studies Black studies ...

...–16), and Windward Coast (2009–ongoing). This verse expands the boundaries of the sonic through Bailey’s corporeal experiences—and that of his spectators—through multilayered surfaces of glitter, mud, and various recycled materials. Musical and cultural influences that range from Bailey performing...

... Language has often been considered as a conceptual entity, divorced from the mechanisms of its material embodiment as socially circulating sound. The chapter argues instead that there are significant areas of overlap between what are often taken as separate domains. These include the sonic...

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... as a phenomenon in itself, independent of materiality. These concepts led Schaeffer to attempt a new classification and description of sounds, in which the traditional aspects of musical sound (pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre) would be rethought in different terms: mass, maintenance, grain, caliber...

... Verse One, Renée Stout: Fetishes, examines the work of Renée Stout, deconstructing her deft manipulation of surfaces, found materials, and personalities to unveil her latent psychosexual authority. Through her physical and metaphysical presence, her work forces the viewer to sort through several...

... promoted and evaluated within a discourse that emphasized the superior sonic qualities and technical features of the multitrack recordings. In 1993, the band and tape archivist Dick Latvala introduced a series of compact disc releases called Dick’s Picks that featured live performances that had been...

...Audible Displacements This essay explores the audibility of U.S. empire and the sonic landscapes of the extended spaces of the U.S.-Mexico border by focusing on both the pasts and presents of migrant musical practice. In the context of a historical “songbook of migrancy” rooted in corridos...

... sonically in real time in ways that suggest the presence of behavior, decision making, and personality was equally the creation of a new kind of cultural practice that required, and still requires, the articulation of an aesthetic capable of both describing and understanding the resultant machine-machine...