Sounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak.
This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and music, including soundscapes, music production, music performance, and mediatisation processes in the context of COVID-19. It represents a first step to understanding how the pandemic and its by-products affected sound domains in terms of experiences and practices, representations, collective imaginaries, and socio-political manipulations.
This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in the realms of music production and performance, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies.
Author(s): Maurizio Agamennone, Daniele Palma, Giulia Sarno
Publisher: Routledge/Focal Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 309
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction: Understanding a Pandemic Through Sound
Listening to the Pandemic Silence
Mediatising Reality
Musicking as a Technology of the Self
Time and Memory
Notes
References
Part I Accounts: Sounds From a World Under Lockdown
1 Listening to the First Lockdown: The Auditory Experience of Wroclaw’s Inhabitants
Assumptions, Categories, and Methodology
Multiplied Schizophonia
Ambivalent Silence
The Lockdown’s Soundmark
Conclusions
Notes
References
2 Together in Discipline and Turmoil: Remembering Public Sounds During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Introduction
Remembering Sound?
Mutual Trajectories
Sounds of the Privatised Public
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Listening to the Hustle and the Hush: Sound, City, and the Pandemic
Introduction
Sounding South Asia
Janata Curfew: A Euphoria in Serious Hours
Noise: The Necessary Evil
The Rhapsody of Silence
Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Applauses and Banners, Horns and Fireworks: Tracing the Sonic Expression of French Social Movements During Lockdown
#CortègeDeFenêtre: When the Songs of the Protests Are Displayed in the Window
The Applause at 8:00 Pm: The Rhythms of a New Confined Socialisation
Appearance of Clapping
What Is Clapping?
What Clapping Means in Times of Confinement
Hijacking a Consensual Ritual for the Benefit of Social Struggle
Hijacking the Applause to Make a Connection: The Role of Sound
The Different Sound Modalities of These Detours: Casserolade, Balcony Concerts for Politically Causes, Slogans at the …
Shouting, Slogans, Casserolades and DIY Percussion
The Sound and Light Shows and Projections, a Dynamic Extension of the Banners
Exit the Window: The New Soundscape of Confined Towns and Suburbs in Protest
Diverting the 8:00 Pm Applause By Honking Horns
Shedding Light Onto an Emerging Counter-Space of Appearance Specific to COVID-19
The Particular Case of Parisian Suburbs
Notes
References
5 Pandemic Soundscaping: Rediscovering a New Aura in the Mediatised Sonic Reality
Why So Surprised?
Towards Immersive Mediatisation
Hic Et Nunc of a Unique Experience
Pandemic Soundscaping
Soundscapes and High-Resolution Technology
Aesthetics, Atmospheres, and the New Aura
For an Investigative Perspective
Notes
References
6 Not People But a Sound: Virtual Audio and the Appropriation of Fandom Practices in Pandemic Football
Behind Closed Doors: Restarting Safely and the Atmosphere Problem
Rewriting Football On Television in Times of Pandemic
Not People But a Sound: Ethical Issues of Virtual Audio
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
7 A Digital Archive of Participatory Location Rhythm Performances: Listening as a Way of Attending to the Pandemic
Listening in Quarantine: Hybrid Auditory Realities
An Archive of Listening: #otherbeats
Playing as Listening: The Playback System and User Interface of #otherbeats
References
Part II Experiences: Musicking in the Face of the Pandemic
8 Huapanguitos Pa Seguir Aguantando En Cuarentena: Mexican SonTube Channels as Emergent Digital Spaces of Music and …
The Streamed Queues of ‘SonTube’ During COVID-19
Notes
References
9 ‘Why Do They Dance In The Middle Of The Pandemic?’: Post-Pandemic Cumbia, Mediated Live Music, and Digital Heritage From …
An Introduction to Pre-Pandemic Mexican Sonideros
The Pandemic and the Social Stigma
Live Music, Sonideros, and the Media Economy
Sonidero Digital Channels as Challenged Archivists and Niche Heritage
Notes
References
10 Sardinian Traditional Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Imaginary Polyphonies
Media Strategies for Multipart Singing
Virtual Multipart Singing
Cantzonis: Narrative Song in Southern Sardinia
‘Su Baballoti’ By Antonio Pani
Conclusions
Notes
References
11 Becoming Visible: Proud Roma and Sinti Musicians in Italy During the Pandemic
First Wave – Stay Home
Towards the Second Wave and Beyond
Conclusions
Notes
References
12 Rethinking Intermedia Practices During the Pandemic: Staging and Conception of Alexander Schubert’s Virtual Reality …
Introduction
Theoretical Background
After Media
Mapping Schubert’s Latest Production
Aesthetic References
Through Media
Institutional Aspects
Into the Unknown
Digital Trespassing
Conclusions
Notes
References
13 Musicians in the Brazilian Pandemic: Facing COVID-19 During the Bolsonaro Regime and the Aldir Blanc Emergency Bill
Negotiating the Emergency Bill
LAB Projects and Their Impacts
Final Considerations
Notes
References
14 Musical Performance During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Days of Future Passed?
The Great (Social) Narration of the Pandemic
Experiencing and Reflecting On Digital Liveness After the Lockdown
Streaming Liveness in the Time of Pandemic (And After?)
Suspended Rites and Media Compensation
Re-Inventing Virtual Communities On YouTube During the Lockdown
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part III Perspectives: Rethinking Sound and Music Against the Backdrop of a Global Crisis
15 Coronamusic(king): Types, Repertoires, Consolatory Function
Coronamusicking: A Typology
Live Music Performances
Performances On the Internet
Repertoire Creation
Coronamusicking as ‘Umgangsmusik’
Coronamusicking as a Practice of Mediated Consolation
Consolation at Large: Theories, Practices, and Media
Musical Consolation During COVID-19
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
16 The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Remotivity in Music
Introduction
Adaption and Response in Challenging Times
The History of Remote and Home Working in Music
This Time It’s Different
Production and Consumption
The Response of Music Practitioners
The Disruption of a Technologically Enabled Global Network
Income Stream Disruption
Living and Working in Isolation
New Instruments of Communication, Production, and Collaboration
New Modes of Expression Through Remotivity
Studios Relocating to Home
Live Streaming From Home
New Performance Platforms
Collage Performances
The Practice of Remotivity
A Creative and Innovative Mindset
Technical Expertise to Repurpose Tools
Maintaining a Stable Client Or Audience Base
A Differentiated Expertise
Summary
References
17 Music in Lockdown: On Sonic Spaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March–June 2020
Boccaccio’s Lesson
Mood Music in Times of COVID-19
The Musical Politics of Balconies
Self-expression and ‘Coronamusic’
References
18 What a Blackbird Has Told Me: Latent Acoustic Learning in the Times of COVID-19
How Silent Urban Soundscapes Can Become
Blackbirds On My Roof
Basic Terminology
Noise Pollution
Continuous Noise and the Salami Sound
Latent Learning and Cognitive Maps
Auditory Cognitive Maps: A Hypothesis
What the Blackbird Has Told Me. Or, How Am I Related to the Blackbird?
How Do I Reply to the Blackbird? Conclusion
Notes
References
19 The Sounds and Silence of COVID-19 Quarantine: Media Representation, Debility, and Neoliberal Biopolitics
Introduction
Sound in Disaster Reporting
Coverage of the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic
China
Italy
Conclusion
Notes
References
20 Four Sounds Against Capitalocene: Lockdown, Music, and the Artist as Producer
Lockdown as a Politically Repressive Measure
Anthropocene and Capitalocene
Music Is Not Just the World of Consolation
The Artist as Producer
Notes
References
Afterword: Coping With Crisis Through Coronamusic
Setting the Scene
An Infectious Case of Musical Revivals
Mental Wellbeing During Lockdown
Musical Coping Behaviours
A Special Role for Corona-Themed Music
Key Characteristics of Coronamusic
Future Musicovid Research
Notes
References
Index
