space place in sound music studies

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SpaceandPlaceinSoundandMusicStudies

Music-GA2199-002

Professor: AndrewJ.Eisenberg([email protected])Meetingtime: Wednesdays10am-12pmLocation: WaverlyBuilding,2ndFloor,Room268OfficeHour: Tuesday11am-12pmCourseOverviewSoundandspaceareintimatelyandinextricablylinked--perhapsespeciallywhenthatsoundisofthespecialsortwecall“music.”Inthisseminarwewillchartapaththroughtheeclectic,multidisciplinaryliteratureonsoundandspace,byisolatingkeyspatialitiesthathavebeenexploredbyscholarsinrelationtosoundandmusic,suchasthevirtual,ecology,place,andcirculation.Wewillgivespecialemphasistoplace,delvingdeeplyintoissuesofmusicandemplacementandwhatStevenFeldhastermedthe“acoustemologyofplace.”Courseassignmentswillchallengeyoutoengagewiththeoreticalconceptsatvariouslevelsofabstraction.Youwillbeaskedtograpplewithphilosophicalquestionsofsound,music,space,andplaceontheirownterms,andthentoconnectthesequestionstomoreworldlyconcernslikeclimatechange,gunviolence,ortheplightofrefugees.AssignmentsandGradeCalculation

• AttendanceandGeneralParticipation(15%)[NBMorethantwoabsencesmayresultinfailureofthecourse]

• In-ClassPresentations(includingfinalpaperpresentation)(15%):Eachsessionwillopenwithabriefpresentationbyonetothreestudent/s.Presentationsmaybeinformalinstyle,butshouldbewellpreparedandwelltimed.

• ShortPapers(35%):Three,five-pagecriticalpapersbasedonprompts.• FinalPaper(35%):An18-20-pagepaperthatbringsoriginalresearch(of

anykind)intoadialoguewithcoursereadings.AttendanceandParticipationThisseminarisacollaborativeundertaking.Asaparticipantyouareexpectedtoattendeverysession.Pleasebepunctual,andcommunicatewithmeaboutany


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expectedorunforeseenlatenessesorabsences.Exceptinexceptionalcircumstances,morethantwoabsenceswillresultinfailureofthecourse.WorkSubmissionPolicyPleasesubmitallwrittenworkindigitalform(MSWordorPDF),double-spaced,12-pointstandardfont(TimesNewRoman,Cambria,etc.).Someleeway(lessthanaweek)maybeallowedondeadlines,providedyoucommunicatewithmeatleastafewdaysinadvance.BooksAlltextshavebeenplacedonreserveatBobstLibrary.SomemayalsobeavailabledigitallyviaNYULibraries.Required

• Born,Georgina,ed.2013.Music,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Connell,John,andChrisGibson.2003.SoundTracks:PopularMusic,IdentityandPlace.London:Routledge.

• Daughtry,J.Martin.2015.ListeningtoWar:Sound,Music,Trauma,andSurvivalinWartimeIraq.OxfordUniversityPress.

• Ihde,Don.2007.ListeningandVoice:PhenomenologiesofSound.StateUniversityofNewYorkPress.

Recommended• Feld,Steven,andKeithH.Basso,eds.1996.SensesofPlace.SantaFe:

SchoolofAmericanResearchPress.• Lefebvre,Henri.1991.TheProductionofSpace.Oxford:Blackwell

Publishing.• Low,Setha.2016.SpatializingCulture:TheEthnographyofSpaceand

Place.Routledge.• Schafer,R.Murray.1994.TheSoundscape:OurSonicEnvironmentandthe

TuningoftheWorld.Rochester:DestinyBooks.SyllabusWeek1:Introduction[Jan.25]RequiredReading

• Eisenberg,AndrewJ.2015.“Space.”InKeywordsinSound,editedbyDavidNovakandMattSakakeeny,193–207.Durham:DukeUniversityPress.

• Born,Georgina.2013.“Introduction.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,1-70.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.[Pp1-24]

Week2:Space,Place,andtheSocial[Feb.1]RequiredReading

• Lefebvre,Henri.1991.TheProductionofSpace.Oxford:BlackwellPublishing.[Chapter1]

• Low,Setha.2016.SpatializingCulture:TheEthnographyofSpaceandPlace.Routledge.[Chapters1and2]


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• Harvey,David.2006.“SpaceasaKeyword.”InDavidHarvey:ACriticalReader,270–94.Oxford:Blackwell.

FurtherReading• Low,SethaM.,andDeniseLawrence-Zúñiga.2003.“LocatingCulture.”In

TheAnthropologyofSpaceandPlace:LocatingCulture.Malden,MA:Blackwell.

Sound,Space,andPerception

1Week3:OntologiesandEpistemologiesofSoundandSpace[Feb.8]RequiredReading

• Casati,Roberto,andJeromeDokic.2012.“Sounds.”InTheStanfordEncyclopediaofPhilosophy,editedbyEdwardN.Zalta.http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/sounds/.

• McLuhan,Marshall.2004.“VisualandAcousticSpace.”InAudioCulture,editedbyChristophCox,andDanielWarner,67-72.NewYork:Continuum.

• Sterne,Jonathan.2011.“TheTheologyofSound:ACritiqueofOrality.”CanadianJournalofCommunication36,no.2:207-26.

• Ihde,Don.2007.ListeningandVoice:PhenomenologiesofSound.StateUniversityofNewYorkPress.[PartsIandII]

• Ingold,Tim.2000.“Stop,LookandListen!Vision,HearingandHumanMovement.”InThePerceptionoftheEnvironment:EssaysinLivelihood,DwellingandSkill,250–87.PsychologyPress.

FurtherReading• Carpenter,Edmund.1960.“TheNewLanguages.”InExplorationsin

Communication:AnAnthology,editedbyMarshallMcLuhan,andEdmundCarpenter,162-79.Boston:BeaconPress.

• Ong,WalterJ.2002.OralityandLiteracy:TheTechnologizingoftheWord.2nded.NewYork:Routledge.

• Street,BrianV.2006.“AutonomousandIdeologicalModelsofLiteracy:ApproachesFromNewLiteracyStudies.”MediaAnthropologyNetwork17,http://www.philbu.net/media-anthropology/street_newliteracy.pdf.

• Teuton,ChristopherB.2014.“IndigenousOralityandOralLiteratures.”InTheOxfordHandbookofIndigenousAmericanLiterature,editedbyJames

1From:Ihde,Don.2007.ListeningandVoice:PhenomenologiesofSound.StateUniversityofNewYorkPress.


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HowardCox,JamesHCox,andDanielHeathJustice,____.OxfordandNewYork:OxfordUniversityPress.

• Grimshaw,Mark.2015.“ABriefArgumentfor,andSummaryof,theConceptofSonicVirtuality.”DanishMusicologyOnline2015(SpecialEdition):81–98.

Week4:TheSensoriumandthePhenomenologyofSoundandSpace[Feb.15]RequiredReading

• Casey,EdwardS.1996.“HowtoGetFromSpacetoPlaceinaFairlyShortStretchofTime:PhilosophicalProlegomena.”InSensesofPlace,editedbyStevenFeld,andKeithH.Basso,13–52.SantaFe:SchoolofAmericanResearchPress.

• Feld,Steven.1996.“WaterfallsofSong:AnAcoustemologyofPlaceResoundinginBosavi,PapuaNewGuinea.”InSensesofPlace,editedbyKeithH.Basso,andStevenFeld,91–135.SantaFe:SchoolofAmericanResearch.

• Low,Setha.2016.SpatializingCulture:TheEthnographyofSpaceandPlace.Routledge.[Chapter5]

• Howes,David.2005.“Introduction:EmpireoftheSenses.”InEmpireoftheSenses:TheSensualCultureReader,editedbyDavidHowes,1–17.BloomsburyAcademic.

FurtherReading• Stoller,Paul.TheTasteofEthnographicThings:TheSensesin

Anthropology.Philadelphia:UniversityofPennsylvaniaPress,1989.[Especiallychapters6and7]

• Howes,David.2003.SensualRelations:EngagingtheSensesinCultureandSocialTheory.AnnArbor:UniversityofMichiganPress.[Chapter2]

• Zuckerkandl,Victor.1969.SoundandSymbol:MusicandtheExternalWorld.PrincetonUniversityPress.[Pp.267-361]

Week5:SoundRecordingandSonicSpatialization[Feb.22]ShortPaperI(duebyendofdayThursday)--5-pagecriticalreflectiondealingindepthwithatleastonetextWeek3andonetextfromWeek4RequiredReading

• Doyle,Peter.2004.“From‘MyBlueHeaven’to‘RaceWiththeDevil’:Echo,Reverband(Dis)OrderedSpaceinEarlyPopularMusicRecording.”PopularMusic23,no.1:31-49.

• Clarke,EricF.2013.“Music,SpaceandSubjectivity.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,90-110.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Ouzounian,Gascia.2013.“SoundInstallationArt:FromSpatialPoeticstoPolitics,AestheticstoEthics.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,73–89.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Valiquet,Patrick.2012.“TheSpatialisationofStereophony:TakingPositionsinPost-WarElectroacousticMusic.”InternationalReviewoftheAestheticsandSociologyofMusic403–21.

FurtherReading


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• Gaver,WilliamW.1993.“WhatintheWorldDoWeHear?:AnEcologicalApproachtoAuditoryEventPerception.”EcologicalPsychology5,no.1:1-29.

• Gaver,WilliamW.1993.“HowDoWeHearintheWorld?ExplorationsinEcologicalAcoustics.”EcologicalPsychology5,no.4:285-313.

• Doyle,Peter.2005.EchoandReverb:FabricatingSpaceinPopularMusic,1900-1960.Middletown:WesleyanuniversityPress.

• Zak,Albin.2001.ThePoeticsofRock:CuttingTracks,MakingRecords.UniversityofCaliforniaPress.

• Ouzounian,Gascia.2007.“VisualizingAcousticSpace.”Circuit:Musiquescontemporaines17(3):45–56.

GeographiesofMusic

2Week6:MusicandCulturalGeography[March1]RequiredReading

• Stokes,Martin.“Introduction:Ethnicity,IdentityandMusic,”InEthnicity,Identity,andMusic:TheMusicalConstructionofPlace,editedbyMartinStokes,1–27.Oxford:Berg,1994.

• Leyshon,Andrew,DavidMatless,andGeorgeRevill.1995.“ThePlaceofMusic:Introduction.”TransactionsoftheInstituteofBritishGeographers423–33.

• Cohen,Sara.1995.“SoundingOuttheCity:MusicandtheSensuousProductionofPlace.”TransactionsoftheInstituteofBritishGeographers434–46.

• Revill,George.2000.“MusicandthePoliticsofSound:Nationalism,Citizenship,andAuditorySpace.”EnvironmentandPlanningD:SocietyandSpace18(5):597–613.

• ConnellandGibsonConnell,John,andChrisGibson.2003.SoundTracks:PopularMusic,IdentityandPlace.London:Routledge.[1-70]

• Impey,Angela.2006.“SoundingPlaceintheWesternMaputalandBorderlands.”JournaloftheMusicalArtsinAfrica3(1):55–79.

FurtherReading• Solomon,Thomas.2000.“DuelingLandscapes:SingingPlacesand

IdentitiesinHighlandBolivia.”Ethnomusicology44(2):257–80.2Photo:AndrewJ.Eisenberg.


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• Straw,Will.1991.“SystemsofArticulation,LogicsofChange:CommunitiesandScenesinPopularMusic.”CulturalStudies5(3):368–88.

Week7:MusicandUrbanSpaceintheGlobalSouth[March8]RequiredReading

• Krims,Adam.2007.MusicandUrbanGeography.NewYork:Routledge.[Introduction]

• Saldanha,Arun.2002.“Music,Space,Identity:GeographiesofYouthCultureinBangalore.”CulturalStudies16(3):337–50.

• Skinner,RyanThomas.2010.“CivilTaxisandWildTrucks:TheDialecticsofSocialSpaceandSubjectivityinDimancheàBamako.”PopularMusic29(1):17–39.

• Larkin,Brian.2004.“BandiriMusic,Globalization,andUrbanExperienceinNigeria.”SocialText81:91–112.

• Hansen,ThomasBlom.2006.“SoundsofFreedom:Music,Taxis,andRacialImaginationinUrbanSouthAfrica.”PublicCulture18(1):185–208.

FurtherReading• Eisenberg,AndrewJ.2012.“Hip-HopandCulturalCitizenshiponKenya’s

‘SwahiliCoast’.”Africa82(4):556–78.Week8:MusicandCirculation[March22]RequiredReading

• Lee,Benjamin,andEdwardLiPuma.2002.“CulturesofCirculation:TheImaginationsofModernity.”PublicCulture14(1):191–213.

• Novak,David.2013.Japanoise:MusicAttheEdgeofCirculation.Durham:DukeUniversityPress.[Introduction]

• Morris,JeremyWade.2015.SellingDigitalMusic,FormattingCulture.UniversityofCaliforniaPress.[Chapter3]

• Steingo,Gavin.2015.“SoundandCirculation:ImmobilityandObduracyinSouthAfricanElectronicMusic.”EthnomusicologyForum24(1)(1):102–23.

• Denning,Michael.2016.“DecolonizingtheEar:TheTranslocalReverberationsofVernacularPhonographMusic.”InAudibleEmpire:Music,GlobalPolitics,Critique,editedbyRonaldRadano,andTejumolaOlaniyan,25–44.DukeUniversityPress.

FurtherReading• Garland,Shannon.2012.““TheSpace,theGear,andTwoBigCansof

Beer”:ForaDoEixoandtheDebateOverCirculation,Remuneration,andAestheticsintheBrazilianAlternativeMarket.”JournalofPopularMusicStudies24(4):509–31.

• Shipley,JesseWeaver.2013.“TransnationalCirculationandDigitalFatigueinGhana’sAzontoDanceCraze.”AmericanEthnologist40(2):362–81.


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TheSoundscape

3Week9:TheSoundscape:IssuesofDocumentationandRepresentation[March29]ShortPaperII(duebyendofdayThursday)--5-pagepaperonacurrentnewsitemaboutmusic(anykindofmusicinanypartoftheworld),applyinganinsightortheoryfromculturalgeography.RequiredReading/Listening

• Schafer,R.Murray.1994.TheSoundscape:OurSonicEnvironmentandtheTuningoftheWorld.Rochester:DestinyBooks.[PartI]

• BritishLibrary.2013.“FiveEuropeanVillages,”SoundandVision(blog).http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/2013/07/five-european-villages.html.

• Akiyama,Mitchell.2015.“UnsettlingtheWorldSoundscapeProject:SoundscapesofCanadaandthePoliticsofSelf-Recognition.”http://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/08/20/unsettling-the-world-soundscape-project-soundscapes-of-canada-and-the-politics-of-self-recognition/.

• Feld,Steven.2001.RainforestSoundwalks:AmbiencesofBosaviPapuaNewGuinea.CD.EarthEar.

• Feld,Steven.1994.“FromEthnomusicologytoEcho-Muse-ecology:ReadingR.MurraySchaferinthePapuaNewGuineaRainforest.”TheSoundscapeNewsletter8:4–6.https://www.acousticecology.org/writings/echomuseecology.html.

• Feld,Steven,andDonaldBrenneis.2004.“DoingAnthropologyinSound.”AmericanEthnologist31(4):461–74.

• Palombini,Carlos.n.d.“StevenFeldonRainforestSoundwalks.”Communautéélectroacoustiquecanadienne/CanadianElectroacousticCommunity.http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/Soundwalk/Feld.html.

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• Thompson,Emily.2002.TheSoundscapeofModernity:ArchitecturalAcousticsandtheCultureofListeninginAmerica,1900-1933.MITPress.[Introduction]

• Pijanowski,BryanC,etal.2011.“SoundscapeEcology:TheScienceofSoundintheLandscape.”BioScience61,no.3:203-16.

FurtherReading/Listening/Viewing• Feld,Steven.2001.Bosavi:RainforestMusicFromPapuaNewGuinea.

SmithsonianFolkways.(DiscII,linernotesavailableat:http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/smithsonian_folkways/SFW40487.pdf).

• Krause,Bernie.1987.“TheNicheHypothesis:HowAnimalsTaughtUstoDanceandSing.”WholeEarthReview57.

• BernieKrauseTEDtalk:https://www.ted.com/talks/bernie_krause_the_voice_of_the_natural_world.

• Schafer,RMurray.1969.TheNewSoundscape:AHandbookfortheModernMusicTeacher.Scarborough,Ontario:BerandolMusicLtd.

• Southworth,Michael.1969.“TheSonicEnvironmentofCities.”EnvironmentandBehavior1,no.1:49-70.

• Wrightson,Kendall.2000.“AnIntroductiontoAcousticEcology.”Soundscape:TheJournalofAcousticEcology1,no.1:10-13.

Week10:RethinkingtheSoundscape[April5]RequiredReading

• Ingold,Tim.2007.“AgainstSoundscape.”InAutumnLeaves:SoundandtheEnvironmentinArtisticPractice,editedbyAngusCarlyle,10-13.Paris:DoubleEntendreParis.

• Helmreich,Stefan.2010.“ListeningAgainstSoundscapes.”AnthropologyNewsDec.51,no.9:10.

• Kelman,AriY.2010.“RethinkingtheSoundscape:ACriticalGenealogyofaKeyTerminSoundStudies.”TheSensesandSociety5,no.2:212-34.

• Samuels,DavidW.,LouiseMeintjes,AnaMariaOchoa,andThomasPorcello.2010.“Soundscapes:TowardaSoundedAnthropology.”AnnualReviewofAnthropology39329–45.


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EthnographiesofSoundandSpace

4Week11:SoundingPublicandPrivateSpaces,I[April12]RequiredReading

• Born,Georgina.2013.“Introduction.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,1–70.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.[Pp24-40]

• Rice,Tom.2013.“BroadcastingtheBody:The‘Private’Made‘Public’inHospitalSoundscapes.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,169–85.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Eisenberg,AndrewJ.2013.“Islam,Sound,andSpace:AcoustemologyandMuslimCitizenshipontheKenyanCoast,”InMusic,Sound,andSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,186–202.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Sakakeeny,Matt.2010.“UndertheBridge:AnOrientationtoSoundscapesinNewOrleans.”Ethnomusicology54(1):1–27.

FurtherReading• Feld,Steven.2015.“Acoustemology.”InKeywordsinSound,editedby

DavidNovak,andMattSakakeeny,12-21.Durham:DukeUniversityPress.• Lefebvre,Henri.2004.Rhythmanalysis:Space,Time,andEverydayLife.

London:Continuum.[Chapter4]• Hirschkind,Charles.2006.TheEthicalSoundscape:CassetteSermonsand

IslamicCounterpublics.NewYork:ColumbiaUniversityPress.• Nicola,Dibben,andAnneliB.Haake.2013.“MusicandtheConstructionof

SpaceinOffice-BasedWorkSettings.”InMusic,SoundandSpace:TransformationsofPublicandPrivateExperience,editedbyGeorginaBorn,150–68.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

• Bull,Michael.2000.SoundingOuttheCity:PersonalStereosandtheManagementofEverydayLife.Oxford:Berg.[Introduction]

• Hankins,Sarah.2013.“MultidimensionalIsraelinessandTelAviv’sTachanahMerkazit:HearingCultureinaPolyphonicTransitHub.”City&Society25(3):282–303.

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Week12:ListeningtoWar[April19][Guestinterlocutor:Prof.MartinDaughtry]ShortPaperIII(duebyendofdayThursday)--5-pagecriticalreflectionorpolemicontheterms“soundscape”and“acoustemology,”assessingtheutilityofeachandhowtheyshouldorshouldnotbedeployed.RequiredReading

• Daughtry,J.Martin.2015.ListeningtoWar:Sound,Music,Trauma,andSurvivalinWartimeIraq.OxfordUniversityPress.

Week13:MusicandChronotope[April26]RequiredReading

• Bakhtin,M.M.1981.“FormsofTimeandChronotopeintheNovel.”InTheDialogicImagination:FourEssays,editedbyMichaelHolquist,andCarylEmerson,84–258.Austin:UniversityofTexasPress.[partsofthemiddlesectionscanbeskimmed,ifnecessary]

• Chanan,Michael.1994.MusicaPractica:TheSocialPracticeofWesternMusicFromGregorianChanttoPostmodernism.LondonandNewYork:Verso.[Chapter2]

• Fox,AaronA.2004.RealCountry:MusicandLanguageinWorkingClassCulture.Durham:DukeUniversityPress.[Chapter3]

• Dent,AlexanderS.2007.“CountryBrothers:KinshipandChronotopeinBrazilianRuralPublicCulture.”AnthropologicalQuarterly455–95.

Week14:PresentationsandWrap-Up[May3]FinalPaperduedateTBA

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