Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint

ISBN-13: 9780190847531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Benjamin Tausig

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Ben Tausig not only witnessed an unprecedented historical moment but ran with it, and he has transformed Thai music studies. He asks us to listen closely to the intimate workings of a massive Thai social movement. This is a once-in-a-generation book. This is sound studies with its feet on the ground.

O autorze

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.