For an anthropology of sound milieux - Perspectives from India

For an anthropology of sound milieux - Perspectives from India

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

anthropology

India

public areas

interactions

representations

Focused on different sound milieux in India, this paper examines public sites (residential areas, bus stations, Hindu temples, markets, etc.) as spaces for social interactions, cultivating different attention modalities and shaping specific social imaginaries. The ethnography is based on the study of ritual sound worlds (and public callings for praying), sonic tactics of merchants, techniques of distortion, sonic communication, and other manners to attribute to these sites a cultural identity as well as for users to share a community. Ambient sounds occupy several dimensions of daily life as well as political relationships. This paper is an introductory approach to the study of ambient sounds in their socio-cultural context of production and reception.

Guillebaud, Christine

Ambiances in action. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances / Ambiances en acte(s). Actes du 2nd Congrès International sur les Ambiances

Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012

2012

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00745953

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/59/53/PDF/ambiances2012_guillebaud.pdf

Montreal

Canada