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Book SynopsisExploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Remapping Sound Studies in the Global South / Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes 1
Part I. The Technology Problematic
1. Another Resonance: Africa and the Sound of Study / Gavin Steingo 39
2. Ululation / Louise Meintjes 61
3. How the Sea Is Sounded: Remapping Indigenous Soundings in the Marshallese Diaspora / Jessica A. Schwartz 77
Part II. Multiple Liminologies
4. Antenatal Aurality in Pacific Afro-Colombia Midwifery / Jairo Moreno 109
5. Loudness, Excess, Power: A Political Liminology of a Global City of the South / Michael Birenbaum Quintero 135
6. The Spoiled and the Salvaged: Modulations of Auditory Value in Bangalore and Bangkok / Michele Friedner and Benjamin Tausig 156
7. Remapping the Voice through Transgender-
Hijra Performance / Jeff Roy 173
Part III. The Politics of Sound
8. Banlieue Sounds, or, The Right to Exist / Hervé Tchumkam 185
9. Sound Studies, Difference, and Global Concept History / Jim Sykes 203
10. "Faking It": Moans and Groans of Loving and Living in Govindpuri Slums / Tripta Chandola 228
11. Disorienting Sounds: A Sensory Ethnography of Syrian Dance Music / Shayna Silverstein 241
12. Afterword. Sonic Cartographies / Ana María Ochoa Gautier 261
Contributors 275
Index 277
