The Acoustics of Politics and its influence on Urban Soundscapes

Beirut’s mid-century soundscape was a vibrant one, yet by 1975 the Lebanese civil war denigrated this vibrancy into chaos. A soundscape once resonating with the echoes of biological, natural, and human sounds has been denigrated by decades-long political strife resulting in a drowning-out of biophonic and geophonic sounds in a present day soundscape dominated by anthrophonic noises. This paper is part of an ongoing research endeavor which seeks to examine the acoustic effects of political strife on urban soundscapes. Data collection, evaluation and analysis will be compared in an effort to ascertain the impact of years of political strife on urban centers.

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El-moutasam Aziz

Laila Manasfi

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Publication date: June 2019

Publication date (Print): June 2019

Pages: 109-113

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[0001]The International University of Beirut

Michel Abi Chahla street, Mousytbeh

Beirut-Lebanon

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM19.17

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Conference name: Politics of the Machine Beirut 2019

Conference acronym: POM2019

Conference number: 2

Conference location: Beirut, Lebanon

Conference date: 11-14 June 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Politics of the Machine

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[1] B. C. PijanowskiL. J. Villanueva-RiveraS. L. DumyahnA. FarinaB. L. KrauseB. M. NapoletanoN. Pieretti 2011 Soundscape ecology: the science of sound in the landscape BioScience 61 3 203 216

[2] R. M. Schafer 1993 The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world Simon and Schuster

[3] R. M. Rehan 2016 The phonic identity of the city urban soundscape for sustainable spaces Hbrc Journal 12 3 337 349

[4] J. Müller 2012 Music and the politics of sound: nationalism, citizenship, and auditory space acoustic memory: Where psychology and history converge Culture & Psychology 18 4 443 464

[5] G. Revill 2000 Music and the politics of sound: nationalism, citizenship, and auditory space Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18 5 597 613

[6] J. Attali 1985 Noise: The political economy of music Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

[7] Michel Chion 1947 1994 Audio-vision: sound on screen New York Columbia University Press

[8] S. FreudD. McLintockH. Haughton 2003 The uncanny New York Penguin Books

[9] S. FeldD. Brenneis 2004 Doing anthropology in sound American Ethnologist 31 4 461 474

[10] T. Burkhalter 2007 Mapping Out the Sound Memory of Beirut: A survey of the music of a war generation Itinéraires esthétiques et scènes culturelles au Proche-Orient 103 125

[11] C. Cox 2011 Beyond representation and signification: Toward a sonic materialism Journal of visual culture 10 2 145 161

[12] P. Simpson 2017 Sonic affects and the production of space:‘Music by handle’and the politics of street music in Victorian London cultural geographies 24 1 89 109

[13] D. Garrioch 2003 Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns Urban History 30 1 5 25

[14] M. AdamsT. CoxG. MooreB. CroxfordM. RefaeeS. Sharples 2006 Sustainable soundscapes: Noise policy and the urban experience Urban Studies 43 13 2385 2398

[15] K. Wrightson 2000 An introduction to acoustic ecology Soundscape: The journal of acoustic ecology 1 1 10 13

[16] M. ZhangJ. Kang 2007 Towards the evaluation, description, and creation of soundscapes in urban open spaces Environment and Planning B: Planning and design 34 1 68 86

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