Gavin Steingo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 94335 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gavin Steingo |
| NOMBRES | Gavin |
| APELLIDO | Steingo |
| FIRMA | STEINGO G |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Interspecies Communication
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Whale Calling
In Zakes Mda's novel The Whale Caller, the protagonist establishes an intimate relationship with a whale by playing music on a horn. This article considers Mda's novel alongside ethnographic work with the book's "real-world" referent in Hermanus, South Africa. What do whales hear when they hear us? Are whales musical creatures? Deploying an eclectic method, I examine possible answers to these questions in an effort to think about music and sound …
Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition
Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys t…
Introduction
Remapping Sound Studies
Remapping Sound Studies
Listening as life
In many parts of Africa, antenatal care is primarily an auditory affair. Midwives evaluate the health of the fetus in utero by listening into the womb with an ear carefully attuned to the sound of heartbeats - of the pregnant person and the fetus(es). These midwives are aided by inexpensive and portable technologies - the fetal stethoscope being the most common - that amplify resonance. With a focus on South Africa, this article examines listenin…
Actors and Accidents in South African Electronic Music
Accidents are a rich site of exploration for the actor–network theorist. Through accidents, hidden actors are brought into view, silent intermediaries become full-blown mediators, and black boxes are pried open. Based on fieldwork with electronic musicians in Soweto, South Africa, this paper asks how one might conceptualize actor–networks in a context where accidents and failures are ubiquitous, even expected aspects of musical activity. Because …
The Inaudible Nation
Kapwani Kiwanga's Alien Speculations
This paper examines the work of Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (b. Canada, 1978), whose work is marked by an innovative combination of techniques from visual art, performance, and social science. I focus on Kiwanga’s performance piece, The Deep Space Scrolls, which engages concepts of the human and the extraterrestrial through a speculative approach to African history. I argue that in rethinking histories of African exploitation and oppressio…
Kapwani Kiwanga
Cet article étudie le travail de l’artiste Kapwani Kiwanga (née au Canada en 1978 et vivant à Paris) qui combine de manière innovante des techniques issues des arts visuels, de la performance et des sciences sociales. Je m’intéresse tout particulièrement à la performance de Kiwanga intitulée Les Manuscrits de l’espace profond (The Deep Space Scrolls), qui met en jeu les concepts de l’humain et de l’extraterrestre à travers une approche spéculativ…
Experiments in Civility
In this essay, we present a reading of two dominant (often, though not always, opposed) modes of understanding music's value: first, a “negative posit” associated most closely with Theodor Adorno that valorizes negation and social uselessness and, second, an “affirmative posit” associated with late twentieth-century musicology and sociology that valorizes music's social utility. Recognizing serious limitations in both, we turn to Étienne Balibar'…
Kwaito's Promise
Rancière's Equal Music
This article addresses the position of music (and art more generally) in the thought of Jacques Rancière. For Rancière, all societies and communities are partitioned first and foremost on the level of sense perception. Both music and politics are therefore aesthetic in the Kantian sense, as the organization of forms that determine what is able to appear to the senses. As such, music has no special powers—it is neither transcendental nor ineffable…
Historicizing Kwaito
In the standard narrative, kwaito is described as a form of electronic dance music that emerged alongside the democratization of South Africa between Nelson Mandelaâ€TMs release from prison (1990) and the democratic elections of 1994. In most cases, scholars have claimed that kwaito emerged as a direct response to the end of apartheid and the birth of the South African “rainbow nation†. While there is certainly some truth in such a claim, the pre…
South African Music after Apartheid
“Kwaito” refers to the musical genre associated with South African black youth in the post‐Apartheid era. Essentially a form of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music “after the struggle.” The term “kwaito” also refers to a whole youth culture complete with vernacular and fashion norms. The “values” of the kwaito generation reflect mainstream consumer capitalism. However, kwaito is infused wit…
I am proud to be South African because I am South African
In this essay I explore issues of ‘white’ subjectivity in post‐apartheid South Africa. I identify and focus on two types of ‘pride’ expressed and articulated by many white South Africans today. The first type of ‘pride’ is a validated pride (validated by the people who express it): for example, many white South Africans are ‘proud’ to be a part of ‘post‐reconciliation’, democratic South Africa. Moreover, many white South Africans feel proud that …
South African Music after Apartheid
“Kwaito” refers to the musical genre associated with South African black youth in the post‐Apartheid era. Essentially a form of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music “after the struggle.” The term “kwaito” also refers to a whole youth culture complete with vernacular and fashion norms. The “values” of the kwaito generation reflect mainstream consumer capitalism. However, kwaito is infused wit…
Whale Calling
In Zakes Mda's novel The Whale Caller, the protagonist establishes an intimate relationship with a whale by playing music on a horn. This article considers Mda's novel alongside ethnographic work with the book's "real-world" referent in Hermanus, South Africa. What do whales hear when they hear us? Are whales musical creatures? Deploying an eclectic method, I examine possible answers to these questions in an effort to think about music and sound …
Remapping Sound Studies
Actors and Accidents in South African Electronic Music
Accidents are a rich site of exploration for the actor–network theorist. Through accidents, hidden actors are brought into view, silent intermediaries become full-blown mediators, and black boxes are pried open. Based on fieldwork with electronic musicians in Soweto, South Africa, this paper asks how one might conceptualize actor–networks in a context where accidents and failures are ubiquitous, even expected aspects of musical activity. Because …
The Inaudible Nation
Listening as life
In many parts of Africa, antenatal care is primarily an auditory affair. Midwives evaluate the health of the fetus in utero by listening into the womb with an ear carefully attuned to the sound of heartbeats - of the pregnant person and the fetus(es). These midwives are aided by inexpensive and portable technologies - the fetal stethoscope being the most common - that amplify resonance. With a focus on South Africa, this article examines listenin…
Rancière's Equal Music
This article addresses the position of music (and art more generally) in the thought of Jacques Rancière. For Rancière, all societies and communities are partitioned first and foremost on the level of sense perception. Both music and politics are therefore aesthetic in the Kantian sense, as the organization of forms that determine what is able to appear to the senses. As such, music has no special powers—it is neither transcendental nor ineffable…
Historicizing Kwaito
In the standard narrative, kwaito is described as a form of electronic dance music that emerged alongside the democratization of South Africa between Nelson Mandelaâ€TMs release from prison (1990) and the democratic elections of 1994. In most cases, scholars have claimed that kwaito emerged as a direct response to the end of apartheid and the birth of the South African “rainbow nation†. While there is certainly some truth in such a claim, the pre…
South African Music after Apartheid
“Kwaito” refers to the musical genre associated with South African black youth in the post‐Apartheid era. Essentially a form of dance music, in its most common form kwaito is intentionally apolitical and represents music “after the struggle.” The term “kwaito” also refers to a whole youth culture complete with vernacular and fashion norms. The “values” of the kwaito generation reflect mainstream consumer capitalism. However, kwaito is infused wit…
I am proud to be South African because I am South African
In this essay I explore issues of ‘white’ subjectivity in post‐apartheid South Africa. I identify and focus on two types of ‘pride’ expressed and articulated by many white South Africans today. The first type of ‘pride’ is a validated pride (validated by the people who express it): for example, many white South Africans are ‘proud’ to be a part of ‘post‐reconciliation’, democratic South Africa. Moreover, many white South Africans feel proud that …
Historicizing Kwaito
In the standard narrative, kwaito is described as a form of electronic dance music that emerged alongside the democratization of South Africa between Nelson Mandelaâ€TMs release from prison (1990) and the democratic elections of 1994. In most cases, scholars have claimed that kwaito emerged as a direct response to the end of apartheid and the birth of the South African “rainbow nation†. While there is certainly some truth in such a claim, the pre…
Rancière's Equal Music
This article addresses the position of music (and art more generally) in the thought of Jacques Rancière. For Rancière, all societies and communities are partitioned first and foremost on the level of sense perception. Both music and politics are therefore aesthetic in the Kantian sense, as the organization of forms that determine what is able to appear to the senses. As such, music has no special powers—it is neither transcendental nor ineffable…
Kwaito's Promise
Experiments in Civility
In this essay, we present a reading of two dominant (often, though not always, opposed) modes of understanding music's value: first, a “negative posit” associated most closely with Theodor Adorno that valorizes negation and social uselessness and, second, an “affirmative posit” associated with late twentieth-century musicology and sociology that valorizes music's social utility. Recognizing serious limitations in both, we turn to Étienne Balibar'…
The Inaudible Nation
Kapwani Kiwanga's Alien Speculations
This paper examines the work of Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (b. Canada, 1978), whose work is marked by an innovative combination of techniques from visual art, performance, and social science. I focus on Kiwanga’s performance piece, The Deep Space Scrolls, which engages concepts of the human and the extraterrestrial through a speculative approach to African history. I argue that in rethinking histories of African exploitation and oppressio…
Kapwani Kiwanga
Cet article étudie le travail de l’artiste Kapwani Kiwanga (née au Canada en 1978 et vivant à Paris) qui combine de manière innovante des techniques issues des arts visuels, de la performance et des sciences sociales. Je m’intéresse tout particulièrement à la performance de Kiwanga intitulée Les Manuscrits de l’espace profond (The Deep Space Scrolls), qui met en jeu les concepts de l’humain et de l’extraterrestre à travers une approche spéculativ…
Actors and Accidents in South African Electronic Music
Accidents are a rich site of exploration for the actor–network theorist. Through accidents, hidden actors are brought into view, silent intermediaries become full-blown mediators, and black boxes are pried open. Based on fieldwork with electronic musicians in Soweto, South Africa, this paper asks how one might conceptualize actor–networks in a context where accidents and failures are ubiquitous, even expected aspects of musical activity. Because …
Remapping Sound Studies
Remapping Sound Studies
Listening as life
In many parts of Africa, antenatal care is primarily an auditory affair. Midwives evaluate the health of the fetus in utero by listening into the womb with an ear carefully attuned to the sound of heartbeats - of the pregnant person and the fetus(es). These midwives are aided by inexpensive and portable technologies - the fetal stethoscope being the most common - that amplify resonance. With a focus on South Africa, this article examines listenin…
Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition
Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys t…
Introduction
Whale Calling
In Zakes Mda's novel The Whale Caller, the protagonist establishes an intimate relationship with a whale by playing music on a horn. This article considers Mda's novel alongside ethnographic work with the book's "real-world" referent in Hermanus, South Africa. What do whales hear when they hear us? Are whales musical creatures? Deploying an eclectic method, I examine possible answers to these questions in an effort to think about music and sound …
Interspecies Communication
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Art (9 obras) · Music History and Culture (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)