- Title
- Practices of emotional and affective geographies of sound
- Creator
- Doughty, Karolina; Duffy, Michelle; Harada, Theresa
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155933
- Identifier
- vital:11314
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2016.06.007
- Identifier
- ISSN:1755-4586
- Abstract
- The articles that comprise this special issue reflect the growing scholarship that investigates the role of sound in understandings of self, others and place. We acknowledge that attending to sound is not new to the humanities and social sciences (Atkinson, 2007; Anderson, 2009; Bull, 2000 ; Smith, 1994, Smith, 2000 ; Thibaud, 2003). Yet, until the recent interest in performativity, embodiment, affect and non-representational theory, studies of music and sound have most often focused on sound as an object, where it is something to be seen or observed rather than heard or felt. This has resulted in an emphasis on representation, which obscures the ways in which the processes of sound influence us and shape our actions, thoughts and feelings in space and time. In the discussions presented here we are not arguing that such a focus is misguided or in error; sound can be characterized as a discrete object, with definable features that can be representative of a clearly demarcated and spatialized community or group. However such studies of sonic processes and practices demonstrate the difficulties inherent in capturing a broader range of effects and the diverse impacts of sound. Sound and music are not simply physiological outcomes of hearing sonic qualities arising within particular social contexts or individual environments; rather sound and music may move us in unpredictable ways, that is, something happens. One important outcome of sound is that it taps into our emotional and intuitive selves, and this has opened up a means to examine how emotions and affects influence social interactions ( DeNora, 2000; Duffy et al., 2011; Revill, 2016; Simpson, 2016; Smith, 2000 ; Wood and Smith, 2004).
- Relation
- Emotion, Space and Society Vol. 20, no. (2016), p. 39-41
- Rights
- Copyright Elsevier
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Sound Geographies; Emotion and Affect; Place; Qualitative Methods; Audio Walks; 2002 Cultural Studies; 1608 Sociology
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