Description
Book SynopsisSonic Encounters recounts the author’s experience gathering field recordings of the Islamic Call to Prayer. It touches on key questions and problems faced along the way, as well as discussing technologies and methods for recording, what it means to develop art from ethnographic research, and the ethics and considerations of working with Islamic communities around the globe. The book uses a sound studies framework to explore artistic research methods and practices in ethnography as they relate to religious recitation.
Table of ContentsList of Figures
List of Recordings
Acknowledgements
Note
Introduction
1. Recording Sound in Context: Sound Mapping
2. Dahab, Egypt, 2003
3. Mosque Alarm Clock: Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2011
4. Sounding the Adhan
5. Old Fishmarket, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2010
6. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017
7. A Method for Recording
8. Florence, Italy, 2017
9. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019
10. Recording as Translation
11. Yangon, Myanmar, 2014
12. Bali, Indonesia, 2017
13. Sound as Memory
14. Al Dabb’iya, United Arab Emirates, 2014
15. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
16. Making Scholarly Art
17. Ezhara Beach, India, 2015
18. Protestors For Us – Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2016
19. The Sonic Context
20. Bangalore, India, 2010
21. Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
22. Ethnography and the Sonic Frame
23. Singapore, 2014
24. Madha, Oman, 2016
Conclusion
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