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We Three, Kinged: Crowning the Aural on 9/11 (2018)

Isaac Vayo
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This study examines the present predominance of visuality in relation to narratives of 9/11, concluding that aurality, typically undervalued in such conversations, is a more accurate and effective representation of 9/11-as-event. Within the broader field of 9/11 aurality, three specific examples are subject to more lengthy analysis in terms of their original context and their presentation to audiences via popular media: the voices of pilot-hijackers Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah, the impacts of those jumping from the burning World Trade Center towers, and George W. Bush’s 14 September 2001 speech delivered from atop the rubble at the World Trade Center site. 9/11 aurality, then, succeeds where the visual imagination fails, allowing its account of the event to persist generationally, its internal logic to exist rationally, and its chief interlocutor, Osama bin Laden, to continue the discourse verbally.
typeresearch exposition
keywords9/11, visuality, aurality, hijackers, jumpers, George W. Bush
date03/11/2015
published27/06/2018
last modified27/06/2018
statuspublished
share statusprivate
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/224412/224413
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.224412
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue01. Issue 1


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nameEither you are with us or you are with the terrorists
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nameGeorge W. Bush - 9-11 Bullhorn Speech - copy
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nameWTC Jumpers
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name9-11 Jumpers - World Trade Center
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nameZiad Jarrah's Transmissions from Flight 93 on 9-11
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nameMohamed Atta- We Have Some Planes
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nameVerizon Wireless -Test Man Launch-
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nameGeorge W. Bush - 9-11 Bullhorn Speech
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