Journal of Sonic Studies - Call for Papers: Sound at Home Sound at
home is the hum of appliances, the babble of water piping, the chatter of media,
and the creaking of a wooden floor; it seeps in from other homes and from the
world outside – traffic, music, shouting; it is the disconcerting, unfamiliar
sounds of the places that have become temporary homes; it is sounds which go
unheard in their familiarity. In this
call, the Journal of Sonic Studies asks authors to explore relationships between notions of home and the auditory. We encourage studies that consider home as a permanent
dwelling for families and individuals as well as studies that consider the
homely in a more abstract sense, as an ideal to long for or a place to dream of
or run from. The broad aim of this special issue is an interest in explorations
of the home as that which is close, most habitual – and perhaps therefore often
overheard – as well as the methodological considerations that follow. Examinations
might follow the home as private and secure, but we also encourage studies where
sound at home reveals itself as problematic and “unheimlich” (cf. Raahauge 2009; Freud 1919). Concretely, we ask how
home designs and technologies shape the soundscapes and atmospheres of the
home, how they are negotiated and how they influence the dynamics of the different
occupants of the home? What kind of “acoustic agency” (Cusick 2013) is expected
of the home – and what is available? How do we explore “acoustemologies” (Feld
2012) of the homes of the present and the past? What can we learn from the
changes they might have undergone? What methodologies allow us to explore
habitual sounds, and can we re-enchant (Mannay 2010; Sikes 2006) these sounds? What is the meaning of sounds that are transported into or
out of the house deliberately or inadvertently? How do the other beings that we
share our homes with influence our sense of home through their “sonic traces”
(Schulze 2018) and kinetic melodies? What characterizes our own “homebody”
(Steinbock 1995)? Proposals
for this special issue might speak to some of the following subjects and points
of discussion, but are not limited to: ·
Soundscapes
and acoustemologies of the home and the homely ·
The
shifting historical role of sound technologies in homes ·
Power
relations and acoustic agency of the homely ·
Methodological
approaches to studies of the intimate and the well-known ·
Histories
of sensing, habituation and overhearing sounds ·
Sounds
as mediations between the home and its surroundings ·
Sound
as indicators of safety versus uncanny sounds. Deadline Potential contributors are invited
to submit full articles by July 1st, 2020. For more information, or to submit an
article, please contact sandra.lori.petersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx or m.a.cobussen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Guest editors Mette Simonsen Abildgaard (cultural
historian of technologies, Aalborg University), Marie Koldkjær Højlund (composer
and audio designer, Aarhus University) and Sandra Lori Petersen, (anthropologist,
University of Copenhagen) will be guest editors of this special issue. The Journal of Sonic Studies is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal providing a platform for
theorists and artist-researchers who would like to present relevant work
regarding auditory cultures, to further our collective understanding of the
impact and importance of sound for our cultures. The editors welcome scholarly
as well as artistic research and also expect all contributions to have a firm
theoretical grounding. Priority is given to contributions that explicitly use
the Internet as a medium, e.g. by inserting A/V materials, hyperlinks, and the
use of non-conventional structures. JSS invites potential contributors to use
the Research Catalogue as the platform in which the submission is presented
(see http://www.researchcatalogue.net/). Other submission guidelines can be found at sonicstudies.org/guidelines. |