Practices of music and sound

Voice: sonic geographies of childhood

“…However, a number of cultural geographers have recently discussed the 'geography of voice' that focuses on the politics of listening / speaking (Gallagher, Kanngieser and Prior 2016;Kanngieser 2012;Bennett et al 2015) as well as exploring music in different contexts (e.g. Anderson et al 2005), sound (Lorimer 2007), radio cultures (Peters 2011), sonic geographies (Matless 2005), the spatial distinctiveness of sound (Revill 2016) and its emotional and affective geographies (Doughty, Duffy and Harada, 2016). In this article, I consider the difference audio material makes to ideas about children's voice and the qualities and characteristics of (past) sound that, as hinted earlier, shape representations of childhood and the re-telling (or re-hearing) of children's experiences.…”

“…Furthermore, this article also chimes with ongoing debates beyond children's geographies: first, on soundscapes and audio cultures in cultural and historical geography (e.g. Anderson et al 2005;Lorimer 2007;Peters 2011;Revill 2016); and second, research by historians on childhood, memory and archives (Stearns 2008;Tesar 2015;Gleason 2016) as well as sensory histories of education (Burke and Grosvenor 2011;Goodman, 2016).…”

How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound

“…For some time geographers have been interested in sonic spaces both from a phenomenological perspective (Tuan, 1974;Pocock, 1989;Rodaway, 1994), and in terms of affective, emotional and performative responses to sonic events, practices, locations, places, concerts, festivals, dances and sessions (Anderson 2004;Anderson et al, 2005;Boland, 2010;De Silvey, 2010;Gallagher and Prior, 2014;Hudson, 2006;Matless, 2005;Morton, 2005;Revill, 2004;Smith, 1997;Smith, 2000;Wood et al, 2007;Wood, 2012;Wood and Smith, 2004). In addition to a concern with the specific qualities of sonic experience, geographers have also become interested in sound's role and influence in the practice of politics and the making of political spaces (Kanngieser, 2011;Pinkerton and Dodds, 2009;Revill, 2000aRevill, , 2000bWaitt, et al, 2014) However little sustained attention has been paid to the processes and practices by which sound actually makes space, shaping and transforming experiences of spatiality and providing the resources and affordances for diverse political practice and action in the process.…”

The craft of musical performance: skilled practice in collaboration

“…Indeed, geography has increasingly examined the situated 'doing' of musical practice, 13 reflecting a wider disciplinary 'metaphorical and substantive turn from "text" and representations, to performance and practices'. 14 Of particular focus has been the relationship between music-making and social formations such as gender, identity, and politics.…”