Benjamin Tausig

Bangkok Is Ringing

Sound, Protest, and Constraint

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with dissidents in Bangkok and beyond, the book analyzes how political dissidents must be sensitive to the ways that their sounding is constrained and channeled.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780190847531
• ISBN-10: 0190847530
• Artikelnr.: 53305584

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Tausig is assistant professor of music (ethnomusicology) at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on sound and political dissent in Southeast Asia and beyond. With training in ethnomusicology, sound studies, and anthropology, Tausig studies political conflict with an ear toward local practices of sounding and hearing. His work has appeared in journals including Social Text, Positions: Asia Critique, and Culture, Theory, and Critique.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: On Sound, Protest Space, and Constraint
Chapter 1 Completely Packed In
Chapter 2 Red Sunday: Power and Connections
Chapter 3 Atrocity Broadcasts
Chapter 4 Wireless Road and the Ground of Modernity
Chapter 5 Megaphone Singing
Chapter 6 The Megaphonic Somsak Sangkaparicha Comes by His Goddamn Self
Chapter 7 A Quiet Mourning: The Poetry of Dynamics
Chapter 8 Whistles
Chapter 9 Vehicular Stereo Systems
Chapter 10 Developing Musical Economies I: CD Vendors
Chapter 11 Developing Musical Economies II: Stage Musicians
Chapter 12 Spontaneous Chants
Chapter 13 Developing Musical Economies III: Mr. Bear
Chapter 14 Surveillance
Chapter 15 Outer Space
Chapter 16 The Vanishing Point
Conclusion: On Mediated Spatiality
Bibliography
LIST OF INTERVIEWS