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An original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in which several modes of listening are simultaneously in play and in which different layers of auditory knowledge and experience coexist. Engaging with Sound Studies, the Anthropology of the Senses, Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies in this volume, Tom Rice shows how sound and listening produce, articulate and mediate social relations inside the hospital; how listening acquires direction and focus within that environment; and how certain sounds become endowed with particular meanings and associations. He also exposes many of the sensory minutiae that both underpin and undermine the production of medical knowledge and skill. Hearing and the Hospital creates an acoustic interrogation of hospital life, and in doing so questions accepted ideas about the sense of hearing itself. There's a great deal to admire in Tom Rice's ethnography of the aural politics of the hospital. First because it represents a unique conjunction of the ethnography of sound and senses with medical anthropology and social studies of science. Next because it patiently details how sound as a way of knowing so deeply informs social practices of medical listening. And finally because it is so successful in revealing both how hospitals and bodies pulse as acoustic spaces, and how patients and doctors professionalize, personalize, and participate as situated listeners.(Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico). Tom Rice is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, and specializes in auditory culture. As well as writing and teaching on sound he has produced audio pieces including the BBC Radio 4 feature The Art of Water Music

In this article, I explore the auditory technopolitics of prenatal sound systems, asking what kinds of futures, listeners and temporalities they seek to produce. With patents for prenatal audio apparatus dating back to the late 1980s, there are now a range of devices available to expectant parents. These sound technologies offer multiple benefits: from soothing away stress to increasing the efficiency of ultrasonic scans. However, one common point of emphasis is their capacity to accelerate foetal 'learning' and cognitive development. Taking as exemplary the Babypod and BabyPlus devices, I argue that prenatal sound systems make audible a particular figuration of pregnancy and gestational labour that combines divergent notions of responsibility and passivity. Contra the equation of neoliberalism with self-control and individualism, I argue that prenatal sound systems amplify neoliberal capitalism's elision of personal, maternal and familial responsibility. As reproductive sound technologies, prenatal sound systems facilitate maternal–familial investment in the pre-born as future-child. Consequently, financialised notions of inheritance are substituted for biological inheritance. Drawing attention to the common rhetorical figuration of the sonic as womb-like, furthermore, I argue that prenatal sound systems exemplify what I refer to as uterine audiophilia. By treating the womb as 'the perfect classroom', prenatal sound systems imply an intense maternal obligation to invest in and impress upon the future-child, while also envisioning the pregnant person's body as an occupied, resonant space. Cohering with a fidelity discourse that posits the reproductive medium as passive container and a source of noise that is to be overcome, uterine audiophilia relies upon politically regressive conceptualisations of pregnancy. I thus argue that these devices mark the hitherto under-theorised convergence of auditory culture, technology and reproductive politics.

Genomic analyses have shown that only 1.2 per cent of the genome is devoted to protein coding sequences (the most commonly invoked definition of genes), and that much of the remaining sequences are employed in regulation – that is, in responding to signals, first, from the immediate environment of the DNA, but ultimately from the distal environment – from the cytoplasm, from the environment outside the cell, and finally, from the environment beyond the organism. Such signals are not restricted to the simple physical and chemical stimuli that impinge directly on the DNA, on the surface of the cell, or even on the body as a whole: organisms with central nervous systems have receptors for forms of perception that are not only more complex but far longer range. Humans have especially sophisticated perceptual capacities, enabling them to respond to a wide range of complex visual, auditory, linguistic and behavioural/emotional signals in their extended environment. Research has recently begun to show that responses to such signals can extend all the way down to the level of gene expression. The question is this: to what extent are we witnessing (at last) a rapprochement between the natural science of biology and the human sciences of sociology and anthropology, and to what extent do the new promises of synthesis merely reflect an expansion of older reductionist aims, threatening once again to marginalize rather than incorporate the insights of cultural analysis? As in my earlier discussion of the nature/nurture debate (2010), my focus will be restricted to the Anglo-American context.

This article examines Beckett's prolonged inquiry into the phenomenological conditions of mental illness. If psychosis initially manifests as an explicit thematic concern in Murphy, it later becomes a formal principle that shapes Beckett's experiments with alternative narrative structures and electronic media. In radio, Beckett finds resources to reproduce for his audience the phenomenological conditions of auditory hallucination and 'thought transmission' that his earlier novelistic simulations of madness could only describe. While offering a rationale for the series of formal transformations that structured Beckett's career, this article also examines the convergence of electronic media and psychopathology and their ethical consequences for clinical conceptions of disability and the human.

บทความวิจัยเรื่องนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) วิเคราะห์คุณค่าของภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงคราม 2) วิเคราะห์การสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงครามตั้งแต่อดีตจนถึงปัจจุบัน และ 3) นำเสนอแนวทางการสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงคราม ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยใช้การศึกษาเอกสาร และการศึกษาภาคสนาม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) ภูมิปัญญาและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงครามมีคุณค่าทางจริยศาสตร์และสุนทรียศาสตร์ คุณค่าทางจริยศาสตร์ ได้แก่ คุณค่าทางความรู้เกี่ยวกับธรรมชาติที่นำไปสู่การปรับตัว คุณค่าทางความคิดเกี่ยวกับจริยธรรมต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมที่มุ่งสู่การทำประมงอย่างยั่งยืน คุณค่าทางทักษะที่เกิดจากความเพียร ภูมิปัญญาด้านความเชื่อ ประเพณีและพิธีกรรมที่เกิดจากค่านิยมด้านความกตัญญู การเคารพธรรมชาติ คุณค่าภายนอกต่อบุคคลในด้านการเลี้ยงชีพอย่างพอเพียง คุณค่าต่อสังคมในด้านการสร้างความสามัคคี การสร้างอัตลักษณ์และความภาคภูมิใจให้ท้องถิ่น คุณค่าทางสุนทรียศาสตร์ ได้แก่ คุณค่าที่เกิดจากวิถีการทำประมงที่มนุษย์ได้สัมผัสธรรมชาติและรับรู้ความงามผ่านการเห็น การได้ยิน การได้สัมผัสความงามของธรรมชาติและ ความงามจากความกลมกลืนของเครื่องมือประมงพื้นบ้านและธรรมชาติ 2) การสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาการทำประมงพื้นบ้านในอดีตและปัจจุบันเป็นการสืบทอดโดยการศึกษาตามอัธยาศัยเป็นหลักโดยมีรากฐานจากครอบครัว ในอดีตผู้สืบทอดคือคนในพื้นที่และจำนวนคนสืบทอดมีมากกว่าในปัจจุบันเนื่องจากการเปลี่ยนแปลงของระบบนิเวศ ค่านิยม และทัศนคติ 3) แนวทางการสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านคือการสืบทอดไปพร้อมกับการอนุรักษ์และฟื้นฟูทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ ควรส่งเสริมการศึกษาตามอัธยาศัยมากที่สุด การศึกษาในระบบและนอกระบบควรมีลักษณะส่งเสริมการสืบทอด หน่วยงานภาครัฐต้องมีบทบาทในการสนับสนุนส่งเสริมเผยแพร่ความรู้เกี่ยวกับประมงพื้นบ้านผ่านการกำหนดนโยบายต่าง ๆ พื้นฐานสำคัญของการสืบทอดคือการฟื้นฟูระบบนิเวศและการสร้างทัศนคติที่ดีให้กับผู้สืบทอดเพื่อให้การทำประมงพื้นบ้านสามารถสืบทอดต่อไปได้อย่างยั่งยืน This article aimed to: 1) analyze the value of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram, 2) to analyze the inheritance of the local fishery wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram from the past to the present, and 3) to present the transmission guideline of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram. The research used qualitative methodologies, including document study and field research. The results were as follows. 1) The fishery wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram has ethical and aesthetic value. The ethical values consist of the knowledge of the nature which leads to the adaptation to the nature, the ethical thinking about the environment which leads to the sustainable fishing and the skills resulting from perseverance. The wisdom of faith, tradition and ritual is derived from the values of the gratitude and the respect to the nature. The extrinsic value for individual is the sufficiency for making a living. The value for the society is the unity, the local identity and the pride in the local society. The aesthetic values come what the local fishermen gain from fishing, the charm of nature that they experience in visually, auditory and sensory modes, that is, the beauty of nature and the harmony between the nature and the fishing equipment. 2) Each generation inherits the knowledge of traditional fisheries and methods by informal education provided by the family. In the past, the successors were indigenous people and there are more successors than at present because of the changes in the ecology, the value and the attitude. 3) The inheritance guideline of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery is that the conservation and the revival of the natural resources must be carried out concurrently. The informal education should be encouraged the most. The formal education and the non-formal education should support the inherited knowledge. The government agencies should support local fisheries. A positive attitude and the wisdom of local fishing must be inculcated in the successors, in order for local fisheries to remain sustainable. ; บทความวิจัยเรื่องนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) วิเคราะห์คุณค่าของภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงคราม 2) วิเคราะห์การสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงครามตั้งแต่อดีตจนถึงปัจจุบัน และ 3) นำเสนอแนวทางการสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่นและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงคราม ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยใช้การศึกษาเอกสาร และการศึกษาภาคสนาม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) ภูมิปัญญาและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านสมุทรสงครามมีคุณค่าทางจริยศาสตร์และสุนทรียศาสตร์ คุณค่าทางจริยศาสตร์ ได้แก่ คุณค่าทางความรู้เกี่ยวกับธรรมชาติที่นำไปสู่การปรับตัว คุณค่าทางความคิดเกี่ยวกับจริยธรรมต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมที่มุ่งสู่การทำประมงอย่างยั่งยืน คุณค่าทางทักษะที่เกิดจากความเพียร ภูมิปัญญาด้านความเชื่อ ประเพณีและพิธีกรรมที่เกิดจากค่านิยมด้านความกตัญญู การเคารพธรรมชาติ คุณค่าภายนอกต่อบุคคลในด้านการเลี้ยงชีพอย่างพอเพียง คุณค่าต่อสังคมในด้านการสร้างความสามัคคี การสร้างอัตลักษณ์และความภาคภูมิใจให้ท้องถิ่น คุณค่าทางสุนทรียศาสตร์ ได้แก่ คุณค่าที่เกิดจากวิถีการทำประมงที่มนุษย์ได้สัมผัสธรรมชาติและรับรู้ความงามผ่านการเห็น การได้ยิน การได้สัมผัสความงามของธรรมชาติและ ความงามจากความกลมกลืนของเครื่องมือประมงพื้นบ้านและธรรมชาติ 2) การสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาการทำประมงพื้นบ้านในอดีตและปัจจุบันเป็นการสืบทอดโดยการศึกษาตามอัธยาศัยเป็นหลักโดยมีรากฐานจากครอบครัว ในอดีตผู้สืบทอดคือคนในพื้นที่และจำนวนคนสืบทอดมีมากกว่าในปัจจุบันเนื่องจากการเปลี่ยนแปลงของระบบนิเวศ ค่านิยม และทัศนคติ 3) แนวทางการสืบทอดภูมิปัญญาและการทำประมงพื้นบ้านคือการสืบทอดไปพร้อมกับการอนุรักษ์และฟื้นฟูทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ ควรส่งเสริมการศึกษาตามอัธยาศัยมากที่สุด การศึกษาในระบบและนอกระบบควรมีลักษณะส่งเสริมการสืบทอด หน่วยงานภาครัฐต้องมีบทบาทในการสนับสนุนส่งเสริมเผยแพร่ความรู้เกี่ยวกับประมงพื้นบ้านผ่านการกำหนดนโยบายต่าง ๆ พื้นฐานสำคัญของการสืบทอดคือการฟื้นฟูระบบนิเวศและการสร้างทัศนคติที่ดีให้กับผู้สืบทอดเพื่อให้การทำประมงพื้นบ้านสามารถสืบทอดต่อไปได้อย่างยั่งยืน This article aimed to: 1) analyze the value of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram, 2) to analyze the inheritance of the local fishery wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram from the past to the present, and 3) to present the transmission guideline of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram. The research used qualitative methodologies, including document study and field research. The results were as follows. 1) The fishery wisdom and the fishery in Samutsongkram has ethical and aesthetic value. The ethical values consist of the knowledge of the nature which leads to the adaptation to the nature, the ethical thinking about the environment which leads to the sustainable fishing and the skills resulting from perseverance. The wisdom of faith, tradition and ritual is derived from the values of the gratitude and the respect to the nature. The extrinsic value for individual is the sufficiency for making a living. The value for the society is the unity, the local identity and the pride in the local society. The aesthetic values come what the local fishermen gain from fishing, the charm of nature that they experience in visually, auditory and sensory modes, that is, the beauty of nature and the harmony between the nature and the fishing equipment. 2) Each generation inherits the knowledge of traditional fisheries and methods by informal education provided by the family. In the past, the successors were indigenous people and there are more successors than at present because of the changes in the ecology, the value and the attitude. 3) The inheritance guideline of the local fisheries wisdom and the fishery is that the conservation and the revival of the natural resources must be carried out concurrently. The informal education should be encouraged the most. The formal education and the non-formal education should support the inherited knowledge. The government agencies should support local fisheries. A positive attitude and the wisdom of local fishing must be inculcated in the successors, in order for local fisheries to remain sustainable.

Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself.

Background:Post meningitis hearing impairment is an important public health problem. Neonatal meningitis is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in neonates in future life. An important consequence is hearing loss. Hearing plays a basic and important role in language, speech and intellectual development. Late detection causes irreversible stunting of the language development potential of the child. Early detection and intervention would help to maximize linguistic competence and literacy development for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The study of brainstem evoked response audiometry provides an opportunity to evaluate the functional integrity of auditory pathway from inner ear to upper brainstem. Aim:This study was conducted to determine the incidence of sensorineural hearing loss following meningitis in neonates. Material and Methods:The present study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics, Government Medical College Srinagar. All the patients,Term neonates with CSF culture proven bacterial meningitis. , were referred to the Department of ENT, SMHS Hospital Srinagar, of the institution for thorough ENT checkup, to exclude any ear pathology and BERA (Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry). Results:In our study total number of cases were 87. Majority of our studied children i.e. 47 (54%) were < days of age whereas 40 (46%) children were 8-28 days of aged. The mean age of our study patients was 15.7+3.71.Out of 87 patients in our study, male predominance was observed with 55.2% males versus 44.8% females with a male to female ratio of 1.2:1. Hearing loss was observed in 11 (12.6%) of our study children.Bilateral hearing loss was seen in 5 of the 11 children (5.7%) while as unilateral hearing loss was observed in 6 of the 11 children (6.9%). Out of a total of 11 (12.6%) patients who had hearing loss, 6 (6.9%) were having mild hearing loss, followed by 3 (3.4%) children with profound hearing loss while as moderate and severe hearing loss was observed in 1 (1.1%) patients each. ...

4.2 Discourse Analysis of the Dred Scott Ruling; 4.3 Refining Linguistic Labels to Distinguish Diversity among Black People; 4.4 Voluntary Black Immigration to the United States; 5 Linguistic Profiling; 5.1 Inception; 5.2 Biblical Precursor; 5.3 Technological Ramification; 5.4 Foundational Research; 5.5 Contemporary Considerations; 5.6 Future Perspectives; 5.7 Conclusion; 6 Earwitness Testimony and Unbiased Formulation of Auditory Lineups; 6.1 (Un)reliable Voice Identification; 6.2 Illustrative Results; 6.3 Implications for the Creation and Utilization of Auditory Lineups.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life -- The World of Personal-Stereo Users -- Reconfiguring the 'Site' and 'Horizon' of Experience -- Personal Stereos and the Management of Cognitive Contingency -- The Re- appropriation of Time in Everyday Life -- Empowering the 'Gaze': Personal Stereos and the Hidden Look -- Filmic Cities and Aesthetic Experience -- The Asymmetrical Urban: The Role of Personal Stereos in Managing Interpersonal Behaviour -- Sounding Out the City: An Auditory Epistemology of Urban Experience -- Visual Theories of City Life and Personal-Stereo Use -- Technology and the Management of Everyday Life -- Aestheticizing Everyday Life: A Critique -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The mp3 lies at the center of important debates around intellectual property and file-sharing, but it is also a cultural artifact in its own right. This article examines the design of the mp3 from both industrial and psychoacoustic perspectives to explain better why mp3s are so easy to exchange and the auditory dimensions of that process of exchange. As a container technology for recorded sound, the mp3 shows that the quality of 'portability' is central to the history of auditory representation. As a psychoacoustic technology that literally plays its listeners, the mp3 shows that digital audio culture works according to logics somewhat distinct from digital visual culture.

This article explores the scope of small-scale radio to create an auditory geography of place. It focuses on the short-term art radio project The Stadium Broadcast, which was staged in November 2014 in an earthquake-damaged sports stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. Thousands of buildings and homes in Christchurch have been demolished since the February 22, 2011, earthquake, and by the time of the broadcast the stadium at Lancaster Park had been unused for three years and nine months, and its future was uncertain. The Stadium Broadcast constructed a radio memorial to the Park's 130-year history through archival recordings, the memories of local people, observation of its current state, and a performed site-specificity. The Stadium Broadcast reflected on the spatiality of radio sounds and transmissions, memory, postdisaster transitionality, and the impermanence of place.

This article presents an ethnography of makeshift worship space for the minority Muslim community of a university campus and neighborhood in a Midwestern city in the United States. It uncovers how Muslim congregational worship is conducted in this provisional site, which bears competing symbols of Christian worship, to explore how the body plays an active role in perceiving space through rearrangement, reorientation, and auditory inscription. It explores how space is zoned to correspond with boundaries of (im)purity toward the symbolic maintenance of the sacred. In addition, it discusses the play of distance in space along the center to the periphery as spatial markers that correspond with positions of authority and membership. Finally, this article discloses how a lack of ownership of space conditions the disposition of a minority religious community within the larger secular and national landscape.

Waugh's last comic novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) takes 'exterior modernism' to a new height, no longer avoiding interiority – as in his interwar fiction – but exteriorising the interior through dissociation. 'The Box', to which the writer-protagonist attributes the source of the tormenting voices, may well be his own mind, an extended – albeit unhealthy – mind that works as a radio: he transmits his thoughts and then receives them as external signals in order to communicate with them. Pinfold's auditory hallucinations are caused by the breakdown of communication. Interestingly, writing is also a dissociative activity. Concerned with the writer's block, the novel reflects on the creative process and illuminates the relationship between madness and creativity. If dissociation, or the splitting of the mind, is a defence against trauma, the traumatic experience Pinfold attempts to suppress is the Second World War. The unusual state of mind accentuates the contingency of Waugh's radio writing; his preferred medium is cinema.