Module ANT3090 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3090: Sound and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Aims
-To explore ways in which the production and consumption of sound are bound up in social relations and practices.
- To question cultural assumptions about the nature and possibilities of sound and listening.
- To examine how key concepts (for example, ideas of 'place' and 'space') may be re-configured through acoustic perspectives.
- To consider the implications of 'thinking acoustically' for anthropological methodology and analysis.
- To interrogate listening and sound recording as ways of engaging with and representing social life.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Give effective explanations of how a range of key texts give insight into the involvement of sound in social relations: 2. Make strong critical assessments of a variety of theoretical perspectives in anthropological and sociological approaches to the study of sound 3. Accurately identify and cogently discuss some methodological issues associated with the study of sound in anthropology and sociology |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Give clear and accurate explanations of how a range of key concepts in sociology and anthropology can be illustrated in relation to the analysis of empirical data 5. Communicate effectively, both in writing and orally, an awareness of strategies for analytically linking micro and macro perspectives 6. Demonstrate skill in critically assessing and developing theoretical ideas through reflection on experiences and observations of social life |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. Show an ability to produce effective independent research and analysis 8. Effectively build and defend an argument based on evidence 9. Communicate effectively in written and verbal form. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Bijsterveld, K. 2003.‘The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age. Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns, 1900-1940’. In The Auditory Culture Reader (eds) M. Bull & L. Back, 165-189. Oxford: Berg.
Corbin, A. 1998. Village bells: sound and meaning in the nineteenth-century French countryside. New York: Columbia University Press.
Feld, S. 1990. Sound and Sentiment: birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Picker, J. M. 2003. Victorian Soundscapes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rice, T. 2013. Hearing and the Hospital. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Press.
