scholarly journals From Musicology to Sound Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol null (41) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
Kyung-Young Chung
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies

Cinesonidos

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Avila
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Mexican Film ◽  
Commercial Medium ◽  
Film Genres

Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico’s Época de Oro is the first book-length study concerning the function of music in the prominent genres structured by the Mexican film industry. Integrating primary source material with film music studies, sound studies, and Mexican film and cultural history, this project closely examines examples from five significant film genres that developed during the 1930s through 1950s. These genres include the prostitute melodrama, the fictional indigenista film (films on indigenous themes or topics), the cine de añoranza porfiriana (films of Porfirian nostalgia), the revolutionary melodrama, and the comedia ranchera (ranch comedy). The musics in these films helped create and accentuate the tropes and archetypes considered central to Mexican cultural nationalism. Distinct in narrative and structure, each genre exploits specific, at times contradictory, aspects of Mexicanidad—the cultural identity of the Mexican people—and, as such, employs different musics to concretize those constructions. Throughout this turbulent period, these tropes and archetypes mirrored changing perceptions of Mexicanidad manufactured by the state and popular and transnational culture. Several social and political agencies were heavily invested in creating a unified national identity to merge the previously fragmented populace owing to the Mexican Revolution (1910–ca.1920). The commercial medium of film became an important tool in acquainting a diverse urban audience with the nuances of national identity, and music played an essential and persuasive role in the process. In this heterogeneous environment, cinema and its music continuously reshaped the contested, fluctuating space of Mexican identity.

Hearing the Crimean War

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This book addresses the sounds of the Crimean War, along with the many ways nineteenth-century wartime is aurally constructed. It examines wide-ranging experiences of listeners in Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Daghestan, Chechnya, and Crimea, illustrating the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the modes by which wartime sound was archived and heard. This book covers topics including music in and around war zones, the mediation of wartime sound, the relationship between sound and violence, and the historiography of listening. Individual chapters concern sound in Leo Tolstoy’s wartime writings, and his place within cosmopolitan sensibilities; the role of the telegraph in constructing sonic imaginations in London and the Black Sea region; the absence of archives for the sounds of particular ethnic groups, and how songs preserve memories for both Crimean Tatars and Polish nationalists; the ways in which perceptions of voice rearranged the mental geographies of Baltic Russia, and undermined aspirations to national unity in Italy; Italian opera as a means of conditioning elite perceptions of Crimean battlefields; and historical frames through which to understand the diffusion of violent sounds amid everyday life. The volume engages the academic fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, literary studies, sound studies, and the history of the senses.

Timbre: Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily I. Dolan ◽  
Alexander Rehding
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Musical Thought ◽  
Material Turn

Timbre has always been a central element of music and sound, but it is only now emerging as a central dimension in musical thought. Aided by the burgeoning fields of sound studies and critical organology, music studies are taking the “material turn” toward timbre. One of the most urgent tasks of a timbral musicology is to rethink its categories from the ground up and to make space for sound at the foundation of our thinking. This chapter offers an overview of the Handbook, presenting a variety of viewpoints on the multifaceted quality of timbre, covering its histories, philosophies, technologies, and modes of perception. It highlights explorations of timbre that have existed (but were marginalized by our collective timbral deafness) and proposes alternative paths not yet pursued.

scholarly journals Music, Politics, and History: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-374
Author(s):  
David Kennerley
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractMusic has been steadily rising up the historical agenda, a product of the emergence of sound studies, the history of the senses, and a mood of interdisciplinary curiosity. This introductory article offers a critical review of how the relationship between music and politics has featured in extant historical writing, from classic works of political history to the most recent scholarship. It begins by evaluating different approaches that historians have taken to music, summarizes the important shifts in method that have recently taken place, and advocates for a performance-centered, contextualized framework that is attentive to the distinctive features of music as a medium. The second half examines avenues for future research into the historical connections between music and politics, focusing on four thematic areas—the body, emotions, space, and memory—and closes with some overarching reflections on music's use as a tool of power, as well as a challenge to it. Although for reasons of cohesion, this short article focuses primarily on scholarship on Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its discussion of theory and methods is intended to be applicable to the study of music and political culture across a broad range of periods and geographies.

scholarly journals Maternal Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in the Offspring: a Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Robinson ◽  
Anna Lähdepuro ◽  
Soile Tuovinen ◽  
Polina Girchenko ◽  
Ville Rantalainen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Case Control Studies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hypertensive Pregnancy ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Pregnancy Disorders

Abstract Purpose of Review We review here recent original research and meta-analytic evidence on the associations of maternal hypertensive pregnancy disorders and mental and behavioral disorders in the offspring. Recent Findings Seven meta-analyses and 11 of 16 original research studies published since 2015 showed significant associations between maternal hypertensive pregnancy disorders and offspring mental and behavioral disorders. Evidence was most consistent in meta-analyses and high-quality cohort studies. The associations, independent of familial confounding, were observed on different mental and behavioral disorders in childhood and schizophrenia in adulthood. Preterm birth and small-for-gestational age birth emerged as possible moderators and mediators of the associations. Cross-sectional and case-control studies yielded inconsistent findings, but had lower methodological quality. Summary Accumulating evidence from methodologically sound studies shows that maternal hypertensive pregnancy disorders are associated with an increased risk of mental and behavioral disorders in the offspring in childhood. More studies on adult mental disorders are needed.

Introduction: The Future of Sound Studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Tony Grajeda ◽  
Jay Beck
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
The Future

Listening to Modernism: New Books in the History of Sound

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLARA HUNTER LATHAM
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Scientific Certainty ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sound Reproduction Technologies ◽  
Sound Technology

The rapid industrialisation and electrification that characterises the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the revolutionary and irreversible technologisation of sound. The ability to send sound great distances, through time and space, amplified the instability of sonic presence both inside and outside the body. Sound reproduction technologies such as gramophone and radio emphasise the questionable materiality of sound. Scholarship in the emerging field of sound studies has tended to focus on sound technologies that emerge in this period, promoting the axiom that the ear epitomises modern sensibility. Even before technological developments revolutionised sound, discourses surrounding the ear anticipated the collapse of scientific certainty that marks the modern age. Developments in sound technology can mask the severing of scientific measurement from musical aesthetics that coincided with the age of recording. If the study of sound in modernity has tended to focus on technological changes and bracket aesthetic questions, it is perhaps because the relationships among the science, technology and aesthetics of sound have not yet been adequately parsed.

Third-sound studies inHe3-He4films

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 497-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Ellis ◽  
R. B. Hallock
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
Third Sound

Book Reviews: Social Measurement through Social Surveys, An Applied Approach, Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK, Human Agents and Social Structures, Irish Journalism before Independence. More of a Disease Than a Profession, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan, Political Corruption in Ireland 1922–2010: A Crooked Harp?, Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World, New Horizons of Critical Theory; Collective Learning and Triple Contingency, Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia, The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism, The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations, Masculinities, Care and Equality: Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives, La Fin du Village: Une Histoire Française, Migrant Activism and Integration from below in Ireland, Ireland: Economic, Political and Social Issues, Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies, Integration in Ireland: The Everyday Lives of African Migrants, Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents, Collaboration in the Life Sciences, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-130
Author(s):  
Eoin Flaherty ◽  
Ifedinma Dimbo ◽  
Ciara Flynn ◽  
Keeffe Linda O ◽  
Moran Lisa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Applied Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migrant Activism

American Folk Music as Tactical Media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Adam Svec
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Tactical Media ◽  
Writing Machines

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated. This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival. From Alan Lomax's cybernetic visions to Bob Dylan's noisy writing machines, this book retrieves a subterranean discourse on the concept of media that might help us to reimagine the potential of the networks in which we work, play, and sing.

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