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List of contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
‘Introduction: Sonic Histories of Occupation’ Russell P. Skelchy and Jeremy E. Taylor
Part I: Voice and Occupation
Introduction: ‘Voice and Occupation’ Jeremy E. Taylor
1. ‘The Vocal Apparatus’s Colonial Contexts: France’s Mission Civilisatrice and (Settler) Colonialism in Algeria and North America’, Iris Blake
2. ‘The Hush Arbour As Sanctuary: African American Survival Silence During British/American Slavery’, Maya Cunningham
3.‘Music and Sound in Weihsien Internment Camp in Japanese-occupied China’, Sophia Geng
Part II
Introduction: ‘Memory, Sound and Occupation’, Jeremy E. Taylor
4. ‘Occupying New Sound Worlds: Debordering Sonic Imaginaries in StoryMaps’, Fiona Magowan and Jim Donaghey, with Annette McNelis
5. ‘Loud Town, Quiet Base: Olongapo City, Subic Bay and the US Navy, 1950–70’, Kevin Sliwoski
6. ‘Registering Sonic Histories in a Multiply Occupied Place: Sound and Survivance in Mangota’ay, Taiwan’, DJ Hatfield
Part III
Introduction to Part Three: ‘Auditory Responses to Occupation and Colonialism’, Jeremy E. Taylor
7. ‘The Sonic Occupation of Central Asia: Sound Culture and the Railway in Chingiz Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years’, Dimitri Smirnov
8. ‘Auditory and Spatial Regimes of United States Colonial Rule in Baguio, Philippines’, Russell P. Skelchy
9. ‘Soundscapes of Diversity in the Port Cities of British Malaya: Cultural Convergences and Contestations in the Early Twentieth Century’, Tan Sooi Beng
Index
About the author
Russell P. Skelchy is an ethnomusicologist who directed the “Sounds of Occupation” stream at the COTCA Project as an ERC Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020. His recent work has appeared in Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT).Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the Author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas(2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project ‘Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia’.
Summary
This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the world, Sonic Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and more.
Examining how an emphasis on auditory culture adds complexity and nuance to understanding the relationship between occupation and the bodily senses, this book is structured around three conceptual themes: voice and occupation; memory, sound and occupation; and auditory responses to occupation and colonialism. Highlighting case studies in Asia, North Africa, North America and Europe, contributors employ a range of theoretical approaches to examine histories of imperialism and foreign occupation, and the auditory legacies they created, and contribute to a wider dialogue about the relationship between sound and imperial projects across political and temporal boundaries.
The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020, Grant Number 682081).
Foreword
A transdisciplinary and comparative exploration into how foreign occupation and imperialism have shaped auditory environments, and how occupied peoples have responded to such conditions
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Sonic Histories of Occupation is important, useful, and above all, timely. It showcases the valuable work being done by scholars at the interdisciplinary nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, post-colonial studies, sub-altern studies, and history.
