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Sonic Citizenship: About the Messy and Fragile Negotiations With and Through Sound (2024)

Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Anette Vandsø and Morten Breinbjerg
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In this article we propose the concept of "sonic citizenship" as a framework for the multitude of ways in which we, in the rhythms of our everyday lives, form the aural background of each other, and how citizenship is practiced, negotiated, and maintained through everyday sonic activities. With examples of messy, fragile, and difficult interactions with sound from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that the effort of tuning the soundscapes of the world needs to be complemented by an attuning approach that focuses on the negotiations we are constantly involved with in our everyday lives. The soundscape approach in the tradition of R. Murray Schafer implies that the soundscape is there as a landscape that we can uncover and tune. Conversely, the attuning approach of sonic citizenship understands soundscapes as relationships and dynamic configurations to which we must continuously attune, and which are themselves reconfigured via breaks in habitual attunements.
typeresearch exposition
date26/09/2024
published11/10/2024
last modified11/10/2024
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copyrightHøjlund
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3032038/3032039
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.3032038
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue26. Issue 26


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