Music constitutes a key medium through which political actors in Jerusalem embody, perform, and negotiate competing paradigms of nationhood and their visions of the future of Jerusalem. Among the Jewish population, many occurrences of public protest involve the intersection of J…
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Through its portfolio of practical case studies and its engagement with critical thinking from a range of disciplines, the PhD investigates the following key question: what are the technical, aesthetic and conceptual impacts of using binaural technology to create a soundscape? ‘…
This thesis surveys the sounds of everyday street and work life to argue for a reassessment of the way historians have understood community, space, materiality and identity in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Germany and Britain. It will demonstrate that sound played …
Through interrelating the Acoustic Communication concepts of soundscape with contemporary collective memory studies, this research project explores the relationship between commuters and the London Underground (LU) soundscape in order to create an interactive sonic environment o…
In the Indian megacity of Mumbai, loudness is power. Over the last fifty years, politicians have emerged as the leading patrons of the exuberant music-oriented events comprising Hindu religious festivals. As sponsors of Hindu festival processions and other events, Mumbai’s polit…
Recent scholarship on metrical psalmody has demonstrated how pervasive the genre was in English worship following the return of Protestantism to England with Elizabeth I’s accession in 1558. In particular, this scholarship has shown that nearly everyone in England sang these psa…