The Strange Stillness of the Past: Toward an Environmental History of Sound and Noise

Coates, Peter A

doi:10.1093/envhis/10.4.636

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“…The pianola’s popularity around the same time may be likewise understood. These instrumental and technological novelties could be due, at least partially, to the psychological need of assuming and reflecting a wider and more complex and mechanical daily soundscape (see Coates, 2005; Loughridge, 2013).…”

Section: Some Musical References: From Mozart To the Beep Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sonic affinity

Calvo-Sotelo¹

2014

Psychology of Music

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Starting with a brief review of the question, this article examines evidence stemming from classical, popular and ethnic music, as well as from the field of language-based taxonomies and other research areas, that seem to prove a strong correlation between aural environment and musical production. To explain these interesting phenomena, we propose the sonic affinity theory, which holds that the human musical brain is shaped by the action of surrounding sounds, which generate aural profiles and aesthetic patterns in complex reflective processes. The ability to unconsciously internalize auditory signals is the result of an adaptive evolutionary mechanism and develops into a sonic affinity.

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Section: Some Musical References: From Mozart To the Beep Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sonic affinity

Calvo-Sotelo¹

2014

Psychology of Music

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“…Such research is also mostly focused on music. It includes: analyses of the relationship between song lyrics and identity-making at different geographical scales (Lehr, 1983;Yarwood and Charlton, 2009); accounts of the role of sound and music in place-based identities (Boland, 2010;Halfacree and Kitchin, 1996); research on how music and sound enact power and politics (Gallagher, 2011;Johnson, 2011;Morley and Somdahl-Sands, 2011;Pinkerton and Dodds, 2009); archival and interview-based research on the role of sound and music in the workplace, the city, the countryside and everyday life (Bull, 2000;Corbin, 1998;DeNora, 2000;Garrioch, 2003;Jones, 2005;Matless, 2005); archival work to reconstruct sonic histories (Coates, 2005;Smith, 2004b), which is sometimes termed acoustic archaeology (Smith, 2004a); and traditional ethnographic methods to locate the role of music in mediating memory (Anderson, 2004).…”

Section: Phonographic Methods In Geography and Related Disciplinesmentioning

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Sonic geographies

Gallagher

Prior

2013

Progress in Human Geography

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Research into the geographies of sound and music has developed over the last 20 years, yet such work largely remains reliant on conventional verbal-textual methods of data collection and dissemination. In this paper we conduct a review of current approaches to sonic research, demonstrating that the erasure of audio media within geography silences a rich seam of empirical data. As a result, we propose that phonographic methods-including listening, audio recording, and playback-need to be developed further. We consider a range of epistemological implications of phonographic methods, and possible future directions for their development in human geography.

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“…The making of a soundscape is inseparable from an individual’s idea of the distinction between sound and noise. As Peter Coates argues: ‘Noise is to sound what stench is to smell (and what weed is to plant)-something dissonant, unwanted, out of place, and invasive’ 33. This distinction is made through a network of relations including person–culture, person–life history, person–machine and person–illness.…”

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Sensing space and making place: the hospital and therapeutic landscapes in two cancer narratives

Bates

2018

Med Humanities

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This article explores the role of senses in the construction and experience of place, focusing on patients’ experiences of hospital care. It compares two cancer narratives for their insights into the heterogeneous ways that hospital environments are made into therapeutic landscapes, arguing that they are a product of dynamic processes rather than something that is simply built. The article draws on a relational model of space and place, alongside literary analysis, to explore the making of un/healthy environments in embodied, affective and sensory terms. It indicates that sensory experiences in hospitals are made (un)therapeutic in relation to illness and recovery, as well as a range of social and human/non-human relations. These conclusions warn against making broad claims about ‘good’ or ‘bad’ hospital sensescapes, or against treating the hospital as a homogeneous space. They also offer new opportunities for medical geography and the medical humanities, by showing how illness and recovery are part of the relational making of space and place.

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The Strange Stillness of the Past: Toward an Environmental History of Sound and Noise

Cited by 69 publications

References 6 publications

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Sensing space and making place: the hospital and therapeutic landscapes in two cancer narratives

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