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Sound and Detention
Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice
- 321 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Sound and Detention
Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice
About this book
In this book, over 40 contributors collectively tune in to how sound-and its absence-can function as a source of power that enables isolation, control and harm, as well as connection, healing and resistance.
Sound and Detention explores soundscapes in places, processes and systems of confinement in order to better understand experiences of imprisonment and to imagine alternatives to the carceral state. Bringing together over 40 contributors from five continents, the book tunes in to some of the manifold effects associated with the presence and absence of sound and music in prisons and places of detention: from isolation, harm and control, to connection, healing and resistance.
Scholarly texts feature alongside poetry, dialogue, memoir and experimental creative writing, as well as a diverse collection of audio productions on the book's accompanying website. This plurality of form mediates the voices of artists, activists, thinkers and practitioners – some themselves currently or formerly incarcerated. Through deep engagement with the sonic realm and with questions of power, the contributors explore what it might mean to listen nearby – making space to hold distinct perspectives and positionalities in respectful simultaneity – while also amplifying resonances between sound, listening and broader questions of epistemic and social justice.
Sound and Detention explores soundscapes in places, processes and systems of confinement in order to better understand experiences of imprisonment and to imagine alternatives to the carceral state. Bringing together over 40 contributors from five continents, the book tunes in to some of the manifold effects associated with the presence and absence of sound and music in prisons and places of detention: from isolation, harm and control, to connection, healing and resistance.
Scholarly texts feature alongside poetry, dialogue, memoir and experimental creative writing, as well as a diverse collection of audio productions on the book's accompanying website. This plurality of form mediates the voices of artists, activists, thinkers and practitioners – some themselves currently or formerly incarcerated. Through deep engagement with the sonic realm and with questions of power, the contributors explore what it might mean to listen nearby – making space to hold distinct perspectives and positionalities in respectful simultaneity – while also amplifying resonances between sound, listening and broader questions of epistemic and social justice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Listening nearby
- Section 1 Part: Transcending the walls: Sound, music and agency during and beyond captivity
- Section 2 Part: Sounding stories: Musical narratives in carceral spaces
- Section 3 Part: ‘An ecology of fear’: Sound, torture and survival in places of detention
- Section 4 Part: Bordering notations: Sonic technologies and postcolonial penalities
- Section 5 Part: Moving to stand still: Charting movement and migration through music and sound
- Index