Soundscape Research Put Into Practice: The Exploration of Soundwalks in the City of Bern
Soundscape Research Put Into Practice: The Exploration of Soundwalks in the City of Bern
Author(s): Brita SweersSubject(s): Music, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Muzikološki institut SANU
Keywords: soundscape; Bern; urban feldwork; applied ethnomusicology; afective economies;
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the possibilities and broader communal impact of applied ethnomusicological work related to soundscape research in a university-based context. Focusing on a seminar in which the fndings of urban soundscape research in the city of Bern (Switzerland) were transformed into six diferent sound tours, the article analyses the diferent strategies and layers of impact within the broader community.
Journal: Muzikologija
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 15-37
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English