The first-ever book to systematically and comprehensively investigate the unique sound worlds of the Global South, Sonic Perspectives from the Global Souths outlines the historical and aesthetic developments of sound practices in some of the key regions of South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.
It examines the sonic aesthesis and thinking in these regions in the light of a complex and fraught colonial relationship with the West to bring forward the under-engaged and often underrepresented artists and thinkers and sonic epistemologies from the Global South. The book is auto-ethnographic in approach, informed by the author’s own practice and migratory background, and draws insights from long conversations with prominent sound practitioners based in the Global South or part of their diaspora. The book traces a decolonial milieu of sounding and listening and offers embodied perspectives on the unheard reciprocity, resonant relationality, and the aural confluences.
1. Introduction
1.1 Sound across borders and cultures
1.2 Sound Studies and the Global Souths
1.3 The brown canon
2. Nomadic listening: a sonic auto-ethnography
3. Trajectories of sound practices across the souths
3.1 South Asia (India, Sri Lanka)
3.2 Middle East (Lebanon, Iran, Syria)
3.3 Africa (Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria)
3.4 Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico)
4. Auditory contemplations
4.1 Non-linear temporality
4.2 Quasi-perspectival space
4.3 Inter-subjectivity, improvisation and participation
4.4 Precolonial technologies
4.5 Orality
4.6 Unrecording and ephemerality of sound
4.7 Co-listening
5. Transcultural sonic experiences
5.1 Ghonta
5.2 Windchimes
5.3 Gong
5.4 Ghunghroo
5.5 Conch shells
5.6 Dheki
5.7 Azaan
5.8 Dhikr
5.9 Dhrupad
6. Sonic reciprocity
6.1 Gamelan, Inayat Khan and Claude Debussy
6.2 Dhrupad and American minimalist music
6.3 Divine intervention and John Cage
6.4 Tanpura drone and Ambient music
6.5 Tarab, Microtonality and generative sound art
6.6 Transnational synthesizing and Disco time: hacking sonic tools
6.7 Band sounds and trans-local modernity
7. An equal sound: commentaries and a silent keynote
7.1 Critical listening to the Global Souths
7.2 Sonic Relationality
7.3 Anti-/De-colonial Listening
7.4 Auditory Confluence
7.5 Indo Sonic Futurisms
Index
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