Peter Mcmurray
Biographic Data
| ID | 673954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Mcmurray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmurray |
| SIGNATURE | MCMURRAY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0127-4615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acoustics of Empire
Mobilizing Karbala
As part of their commemorations of the Battle of Karbala and martyrdom of Husayn b. ‘Alī, many Muslims, especially Shi‘a, participate in collective lamentation culminating on the day of Ashura, often including forms of procession in which sound plays a crucial role. In migrant communities in Berlin, Germany, such Ashura processions use sound and embodied performance not only to commemorate Husayn but also to transform or remediate urban space, cr…
Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon Northup
In his 1853 autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years a Slave, violinist Solomon Northup recounts his own experience of being abducted and sold into slavery for twelve years. Born as a free Black man with significant musical experience prior to enslavement, Northup offers considerable detail about his sonic (and musical) experiences, frequently situating them in a broader environmental context of slave plantations, land- and riverscapes of the Ame…
What is it like to be a crane? Notes on Alevi semah and the Sivas massacre
Semah is an Alevi ritual practice performed throughout Anatolia (Turkey) and the Alevi diaspora consisting of collective, dance-like movements that often take on or mimic the movements of animals, especially cranes. In attempting to elucidate that interplay between human performer and sacred animal, I draw on theoretical writings (especially philosophy and affect theory) about how people might – or might not – be able to become – or become like –…
Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
After the Archive
The afterlife of an archive determines what that archive was in the first place. In other words, the way an archive preserves, processes, analyzes, and circulates its holdings—or fails to do so—plays a central role in constituting not just the what of the archive (its ontology) but also its when (the temporalities it contains and allows). In the 1930s, Milman Parry, a scholar of Homeric epic, traveled to the former Yugoslavia to collect oral poet…
Ephemeral cartography
With the concurrent rise of internet cartography (e.g. Google Maps) and low-cost digital audio recording devices, soundmapping has become a widespread phenomenon. But soundmapping has a much longer history, reaching back centuries and arguably millennia. Taking a kind of media archaeological approach to such cartographic practices, I consider a number of approaches that have been used historically in systematically combining sound and mapping and…
Listening to Arab modernity
Two primary impulses – one aesthetic, one political – appear to drive Norient’s 2013 vinyl release of a “mix edit” of their project, Sonic Traces from the Arab World. Aesthetically, the release is
Hikâye
Book Review| February 01 2011 Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance ArtAzerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art. İlhan Başgöz. 2008. Bloomington: Indiana University, Special Publications of the Folklore Institute No. 7, x, 322 pp., photos, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $55.00.Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs …
Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Ephemeral cartography
With the concurrent rise of internet cartography (e.g. Google Maps) and low-cost digital audio recording devices, soundmapping has become a widespread phenomenon. But soundmapping has a much longer history, reaching back centuries and arguably millennia. Taking a kind of media archaeological approach to such cartographic practices, I consider a number of approaches that have been used historically in systematically combining sound and mapping and…
Hikâye
Book Review| February 01 2011 Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance ArtAzerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Hikâye: Turkish Folk Romance as Performance Art. İlhan Başgöz. 2008. Bloomington: Indiana University, Special Publications of the Folklore Institute No. 7, x, 322 pp., photos, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Cloth, $55.00.Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs …
Listening to Arab modernity
Two primary impulses – one aesthetic, one political – appear to drive Norient’s 2013 vinyl release of a “mix edit” of their project, Sonic Traces from the Arab World. Aesthetically, the release is
Ephemeral cartography
With the concurrent rise of internet cartography (e.g. Google Maps) and low-cost digital audio recording devices, soundmapping has become a widespread phenomenon. But soundmapping has a much longer history, reaching back centuries and arguably millennia. Taking a kind of media archaeological approach to such cartographic practices, I consider a number of approaches that have been used historically in systematically combining sound and mapping and…
After the Archive
The afterlife of an archive determines what that archive was in the first place. In other words, the way an archive preserves, processes, analyzes, and circulates its holdings—or fails to do so—plays a central role in constituting not just the what of the archive (its ontology) but also its when (the temporalities it contains and allows). In the 1930s, Milman Parry, a scholar of Homeric epic, traveled to the former Yugoslavia to collect oral poet…
What is it like to be a crane? Notes on Alevi semah and the Sivas massacre
Semah is an Alevi ritual practice performed throughout Anatolia (Turkey) and the Alevi diaspora consisting of collective, dance-like movements that often take on or mimic the movements of animals, especially cranes. In attempting to elucidate that interplay between human performer and sacred animal, I draw on theoretical writings (especially philosophy and affect theory) about how people might – or might not – be able to become – or become like –…
Sonic ethnography
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Mobilizing Karbala
As part of their commemorations of the Battle of Karbala and martyrdom of Husayn b. ‘Alī, many Muslims, especially Shi‘a, participate in collective lamentation culminating on the day of Ashura, often including forms of procession in which sound plays a crucial role. In migrant communities in Berlin, Germany, such Ashura processions use sound and embodied performance not only to commemorate Husayn but also to transform or remediate urban space, cr…
Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon Northup
In his 1853 autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years a Slave, violinist Solomon Northup recounts his own experience of being abducted and sold into slavery for twelve years. Born as a free Black man with significant musical experience prior to enslavement, Northup offers considerable detail about his sonic (and musical) experiences, frequently situating them in a broader environmental context of slave plantations, land- and riverscapes of the Ame…
Acoustics of Empire
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Active listening (2 works)