Postcolonial Repercussions: On Sound Ontologies and Decolonised Listening - Paperback

by Johannes Salim Ismaiel-Wendt (Editor), Andi Schoon (Editor)

Can sound be perceived independently of its social dimension? Or is it always embedded in a discursive network? Postcolonial Repercussions explores these questions in form of a collective conversation. The contributors have collected sound stories and sound knowledge from Brazil to Morocco, listened to resonances from the Underground and the Pacific Ocean, from Popular Music and speech recognition.
The anthology gathers heterogeneous approaches to emancipatory forms of ontological listening as well as pleas for critical fabulation and a practice of care. It tells us about opportunities, perspectives and the (im)possibility of decolonised listening.

Author Biography

Johannes Salim Ismaiel-Wendt studied cultural studies, sociology and musicology at Universität Bremen. He received his doctorate with the thesis »tracks'n'treks. Populäre Musik und Postkoloniale Analyse« (2011). From 2010-2012 he worked as a research consultant and collaborator at the House of World Cultures in the projects Translating HipHop and Global Prayers. Since 2012, he has been a professor for musicology and sociology of music at Universität Hildesheim. His research focuses on music and the genesis of knowledge, popular music and postcolonial analysis.
Andi Schoon is a professor of cultural and media studies at Hochschule der Künste Bern. He studied musicology, German literature and sociology at the Universität Hamburg.