Critical Perspectives on Petrosonics
Critical Perspectives on Petrosonics
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Description
Lying at the intersection of sound studies and energy humanities, this edited volume is the first to explore the sounds of fossil fuels and the entanglement of energy and listening within petrocapitalism.
In a chorus of engines on the highway, as in the thunder and whine of airplanes overhead, oil has come to define and shape the sonic contours of everyday life in the twenty-first century. Over the past two centuries, fossil fuels have asserted their presence in countless other, sometimes unexpected ways: through coal and oil companies as musical sponsors, in the sonics of coal and oil towns and traditional peatlands, in seismic survey, through the vinyl record (which relies on oil-derived, synthetic plastic pellets), and across audiovisual culture more broadly.
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, including musicology, ethnomusicology, screen music studies, sound studies, comparative literature and more, this book presents case studies situated in the British Isles, North America, Venezuela, Russia, Equatorial Guinea and Iran, to examine questions of sonic materiality, extractive listening and environmental destruction.
Table of Contents
Gavin Williams, King's College London, Annette Davison, University of Edinburgh, and Laudan Nooshin, City St George's, University of London
PART 1 Sonic Extractions
1. Wetland, Wasteland, Wealth: Listening to the Northern Irish Peatlands
Lara Weaver, Queen's University Belfast
2. Deconvolved: Big Data, Oil and Geo-Histories of Sound
Gavin Williams, King's College London
3. Rhythms of Venezuela: The Extraction and Refinement of Traditional Music
Andrea Zarza Canova, British Library and University of Nottingham, and Carlos Colmenares Gil,
Indiana University, Bloomington.
PART 2 Oil's Agencies
4. Mediating Global Economics and Local Politics Through Music in Equatorial Guinea
Pablo Infante-Amate, Universidad de Jae´n
5. Petrocapital Ambient Soundtrack
Michael Nardone, Université de Montréal
6. “More Than Just the Sounds of Traffic”: The Petro-Sonics of Tehran
Laudan Nooshin, City St George's, University of London
PART 3 Carbon Aesthetics
7. Energising Energy: Satire, Electronic Dance Music and Russian Petroculture in the 2010s
Annette Davison, University of Edinburgh, and Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh
8. “Goin' to the Big Oil Show”: Celebrating Oil in Song in Devon, Alberta
Jamie Meyers-Riczu, University of Alberta
9. “Give Me Oil in my Lamp”: Sounding the Biosonic Hymn
Erin Johnson-Williams, University of Southampton
PART 4 Fossils Echo
10. Oil, Memory, and Trauma in Abadan Port-Oil City
Armaghan Fakhraeirad, University of Pennsylvania
11. Hearing Musical Petrocultures in Scotland's Mining Communities, 1850-1930
Rowan Bayliss Hawitt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
12. Peter Handford's Steamscapes
Jonathan Hicks, University of Aberdeen
Afterword
Tim Boon, University College, London
Product details
| Published | 08 Jul 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798765124567 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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