Sound Matters

Boynton, Susan; Kay, Sarah; Cornish, Alison; Albin, Andrew

doi:10.1086/688003

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“…This article will reflect upon the difficulty of reproducing these experiences and of capturing sounds, whether, accents, music, whispers, cries, etc. through words (Boynton et al 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These differences are dynamically (re)constructed through day‐to‐day sensory interactions while simultaneously functioning as a framework within which these same interactions occur. As a fundamental element in the racialized experience of the city, sound has a relational characteristic that compromises perception and meaning making (Boynton, Kay and Cornish 2016:1002). For a Latina woman moving through Madrid, and who on seeing a Nazi symbol painted on a bus stop feels afraid, the culmination of sounds of the city includes her own quickening breath.…”

Section: Soundscape Sensory Community and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

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Criminal Sounds–Primitive Sounds: Sensory Conflict and the Racialization of Urban Space in Cartagena (Colombia) and Madrid (Spain)

González-Güeto

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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This study reexamines how the racial construction of body/place is closely related to symbolic processes in the ordering of the sensory experiences of working‐class and poor neighborhoods. Specifically, it considers the role played by soundscapes in the aforementioned relationships within Andean communities in Madrid (Spain), and Palenquera communities in Cartagena (Colombia). The analytical framework of this article aims to rework the contributions of the sensory turn in sociology, so as to connect them with key categories taken from Critical Race Studies. To fulfill the aims of this work, a sensuous ethnography was carried out, including in‐depth interviews with inhabitants of working‐class and poor neighborhoods and activists from antiracist organizations. At the same time, the analysis was carried out into the cities’ local newspapers. The application of these conceptual frameworks and methodologies led to one main conclusion: sensory conflict related to sound in these cities is a fundamental manifestation of the racialization of space. The working‐class and poor neighborhoods of Cartagena and Madrid do not reproduce hegemonic urban sensory models but instead resist them on a daily basis.

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“…This article will reflect upon the difficulty of reproducing these experiences and of capturing sounds, whether, accents, music, whispers, cries, etc. through words (Boynton et al 2016).…”

Section: In-depth Interviewsmentioning

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Section: Soundscape Sensory Community and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

Criminal Sounds–Primitive Sounds: Sensory Conflict and the Racialization of Urban Space in Cartagena (Colombia) and Madrid (Spain)

González-Güeto

2021

Sociological Inquiry

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“…Marcabru also incorporated sounds from the animal world, such as squawking cries and dog-like shrieks, into the sonics of his poems. As Sarah Kay has pointed out, by admitting these nonhuman "voices within his own," he allowed his poetry to be "open to worlds and sounds beyond the human" (Boynton et al, 2016). While this was at once a method for undermining human rationality, it also had a genuine loving effect.…”

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Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe

Jones

2021

Journal of Material Culture

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In three loving encounters between humans and nonhumans, this article explores different approaches to material love in medieval Europe. Beginning with an English bishop who attempted to eat the bone relic of Saint Mary Magdalene, it first considers how a series of medieval thinkers imagined God's love as mediated primarily through the consumption of matter. Further, it shows how the medieval commercialization of relics enabled a subversive, quasi-mystical counter tradition that located loving experiences within the unmediated physicality, or thingness, of Christian artifacts themselves. Moving next to Saint Francis of Assisi (d.1226), the article explores a curious case of self-negating devotion to fire. While contextualizing the saint's love against a background of scholastic materialism and ecstatic mysticism, it explores how fire gained a unique onto-theological status as the material essence of both love and the heavens in the 1200s. Finally, turning to love for animals, the analysis explores the astonishing care shown to falcons by the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II (d.1250). While surveying a series of trends in medieval ways of loving creatures, the article stresses how the emperor's radical empathy for beasts allowed him temporarily to surrender his sovereignty, melding the interest of king and bird. Just like the mystical theology that underpinned much of medieval devotion, it argues, these three loving encounters were all essentially structured as self-annihilating journeys into a “oneness” with the material landscape. Considering the ongoing threads of this forgotten type of self-erasing love, these medieval encounters can have intriguing implications for debates in the environmental humanities today.

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“…In recent years, a sound studies framework has drawn scholars across disciplines to lend their ears to the prehistory of what Johnathan Sterne termed "the audible past", by which he referred to the age of mechanical reproduction of sound (2003,2). Much recent scholarship has investigated the medieval soundscape, paying particular attention to human and animal vocal sounds (Zingesser 2020;Levitski 2018;Boynton et al 2016;Leach 2006;Eco et al 1984). In the field of Dante studies, Alison Cornish has read Dante's poetry from a sonic perspective, resituating sound at the center of Dantean discourses on body and soul, personhood and community, justice and violence (Cornish 2019;2016a;2016b).…”

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Music and Grammar

Scartoni

2023

Textual Cultures

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Dante’s original and insightful linguistics and poetics have prompted important conversations among scholars, in terms of their anthropological, theological, and philosophical implications. In this article, I reconsider Dante’s understanding of language and poetics from the perspective of grammar and music. I bring together the scholarship from these two disciplines to analyze Dante’s theoretical and poetical works, and I argue that grammar and music offered Dante two distinct ways to think about language. I trace the relationship between the two disciplines in the De Vulgari Eloquentia first, and in the first cantos of the Comedy (Inf. 1–3), in the second part of this article. Ultimately, I show that a deeper understanding of Dante’s grammatical and musical models of linguistic inquiry can shed new light on our comprehension not only of his poetics but also of his ethical and political project.

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Sound Matters

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Criminal Sounds–Primitive Sounds: Sensory Conflict and the Racialization of Urban Space in Cartagena (Colombia) and Madrid (Spain)

Criminal Sounds–Primitive Sounds: Sensory Conflict and the Racialization of Urban Space in Cartagena (Colombia) and Madrid (Spain)

Bones, fire, and falcons: Loving things in medieval Europe

Music and Grammar

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