Bloomsbury Academic Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the world, Sonic Histories of Occupation seeks to answer these questions and more. Examining how an emphasis on auditory culture adds complexity and nuance to understanding the relationship between occupation and the bodily senses, this book is structured around three conceptual themes: voice and occupation; memory, sound and occupation; and auditory responses to occupation and colonialism. Highlighting case studies in Asia, North Africa, North America and Europe, contributors employ a range of theoretical approaches to examine histories of imperialism and foreign occupation, and the auditory legacies they created, and contribute to a wider dialogue about the relationship between sound and imperial projects across political and temporal boundaries. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020, Grant Number 682081). Review Sonic Histories of Occupation is important, useful, and above all, timely. It showcases the valuable work being done by scholars at the interdisciplinary nexus of musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, post-colonial studies, sub-altern studies, and history.Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University, USASonic Histories of Occupationis the first collection of essays decolonizing sound studies on a global scale. From now on, histories of the trauma, dispossession and destruction wrought by colonial and imperialist rule that do not consider sound will be considered insufficient.Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin, Editor, Sound Studies, USA About the Author Russell P. Skelchy is an ethnomusicologist who directed the “Sounds of Occupation” stream at the COTCA Project as an ERC Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020. His recent work has appeared in Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies, the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT).Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the Author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas(2011) and has published articles in over 25 journals. Jeremy is Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project ‘Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia’.