The course examines the role of music and sound in the production of social space and the constitution of memory as a collective process. The relation between sound and space is analysed as lived experience that is passed down in time in the form of historical testimonies, but also via the various representations that are constituted and reproduced in the context of public rituals. The course covers the main analytical concepts and methods of the anthropology of sound, sensory history, and memory studies, and foregrounds the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. The aim of this course is to familiarise students with the reception of the past through the spatial dimension of music.

Published On: March 31st, 2022Categories: Courses