Polisonics

Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-04734-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Bringing together contributors with backgrounds in ethnography, theatre, design, music, and sound, Polisonics: Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound demonstrates the importance of sound in design and how the sonic offers alternatives to dominant, singular, and technologically determined narratives.

From sonic street interventions to rural field recording, water fountains to community listening sessions and Palestinian Hip-Hop to sound for VR, this book foregrounds participatory modes of making and collective engagement, particularly those rooted in musical cultures. Examining how relational approaches to sound can help reshape paradigms and challenge systemic inequalities, build communities and resist structural injustice.

With chapters on areas including audio description, sound systems, and the use of machine listening as a tool for immigration control, Polisonics will be of interest to activists, academics, and musicians as well as those studying and working in sound design, ethnography, social justice and theatre.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massalha, Manal

Lewis, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sounding and Listening in Place - Four Events in the Nottingdale Community After the Grenfell Tower Fire  2. A Manifesto for Integrating Audio Description in Design Practice  3. For Sound To Emanate From Sites Or, Some Notes On Black Sonic Bildung  4. Re-situating Machine Listening: The Question of "Justice" in the Voice Biometry Apparatus of the German Asylum System  5. speaking thr-o-ugh: Putting it out, speaking, listening, disrupting?  6. “Hearing the Difference.” Tradition, Futurity, and the Black Time of Sounding in Channel One Sound System’s Sessions  7. Ethnographies of Listening: Settler-Colonial Violence, Erasure and Convivial Possibilities  8. Noise (Unk)now(n)  9. Soundwashing

Über Autor(innen)

Matt Lewis is an artist and researcher based in Margate and London. Informed by a background in music, he’s passionate about the importance of coming together in groups to make things happen. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths and works at the Royal College of Art in London where he teaches sound and is part of the Voicing Sound Research Group.

Manal Massalha is a London-based sociologist, urban ethnographer and social documentary photographer/videographer. Manal holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and her practice explores the everyday and the mundane, the human and the urban, the cultural and the social, the political and the economic.