Science” and Literary Soundscapes, Neuroscience and Oral History

Research Notes from Iranian Studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8967692
AutoresCamron Michael Amin (0000-0003-0729-7479, University of Michigan–Dearborn, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas146-150
Fecha de publicación2016-01-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743815001567
OpenAlexW2606238426
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

We have no shortage of texts to recover representations of sound. There is also an underutilized, renewable—yet, if not recorded, ephemeral—source that can help us recover the sounds of the vanishing past: oral history. The discovery of soundways and historically contextualized soundscapes is a compelling project on its own. By “soundways,” I mean the “paths, trajectories, transformations, mediations, practices, and techniques—in short, the way—that people employ to interpret and express their attitudes or beliefs about sound.” Global culture can be thought of as flowing through technoscapes, ethnoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes, and ideascapes, Arjun Appadurai has argued. The flow of global culture through these “scapes” would be represented in local soundscapes. Oral history interviews are one way to follow the flow to the level of the individual. And while sensory memories—especially echoic, haptic, and iconic—are being investigated in the context of medical and psychological research, they are not often considered in connection with social history

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Economic shortage · Ephemeral key · Linguistics · Oral history · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · Computer Science · History · Media, Communication, and Education · Psychology