Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context

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This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the world, Sonic Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and more. Examining how an emphasis on auditory culture adds complexity and nuance to understanding the relationship between occupation and the bodily senses, this book is structured around three conceptual themes: voice and occupation; memory, sound and occupation; and auditory responses to occupation and colonialism. Highlighting case studies in Asia, North Africa, North America and Europe, contributors employ a range of theoretical approaches to examine histories of imperialism and foreign occupation, and the auditory legacies they created, and contribute to a wider dialogue about the relationship between sound and imperial projects across political and temporal boundaries. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020, Grant Number 682081). Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Sonic histories of occupation Part I: Voice and occupation: Introduction to Part I Chapter 1: The vocal apparatus’ colonial contexts: France’s mission civilisatrice and (settler) colonialism in Algeria and North America Chapter 2: The hush arbour as sanctuary: African American survival silence during British/American slavery Chapter 3: Music and sound in Weihsien Internment Camp in Japanese-occupied China Part II: Memory, sound and occupation: Introduction to Part II Chapter 4: Occupying new sound worlds: Debordering sonic imaginaries in StoryMaps1 Chapter 5: Loud town, quiet base: Olongapo City, Subic Bay and the US Navy, 1950–70 Chapter 6: Registering sonic histories in a multiply occupied place: Sound and survivance in Mangota’ay, Taiwan  Part III: Auditory responses to occupation and colonialism: Introduction to Part III Chapter 7: The sonic occupation of Central Asia: Sound culture and the railway in Chingiz Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years Chapter 8: Auditory and spatial regimes of US colonial rule in Baguio, Philippines1 Chapter 9: Soundscapes of diversity in the port cities of British Malaya: Cultural convergences and contestations in the early twentieth century Index