Urban Heterophony and the Mediation of Place












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            * Peter McMurray
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            Abstrakt

            This paper explores a variety of methodologies that offer ethnographic access to the kinds
            organized sound" that typify urban acoustic spaces. The case studies draw from ongoing res
            Muslim rituals in the Western Balkans (especially Kosovo), exploring ways in which sound a

            difference in cities (urban heterophony) and in so doing mediates notions of place. Three 
            are put forward here: first, documentary sound studies, an attempt to bring together the k
            rich practices of visual anthropology, acknowledging that academic prose has inherent limi

            to represent; second, media archaeology, a critical reappraisal of media archives (whether
            designated as archives or not) as repositories for audio and other materials-both physical

            which simultaneously reflect and shape the priorities of the archive and its discursive pr
            and, finally, aural flânerie, emphasizing passage through city spaces as a way of interrog
            boundaries and marginal spaces comprising the city. These ethnographic approaches offer a 

            particularly suited to the socially enmeshed, collaborative realm of urban ethnomusicology
            so as technological developments raise questions about many of the basic premises of what 
            fieldwork and ethnography in the past.


            Klíčová slova
            sound studies; mediation; Sufism; Kosovo


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