TaPRA 2019, Exeter, Sound, Voice & Music WG CfP: Listening Across

Deadline: April 16, 2019
Listening is, unsurprisingly, a primary concern in the study of the aural and the sonic. Foundational texts of sound studies have proposed various taxonomies for understanding listening as both ontological and phenomenal: from Don Ihde’s phenomenology of listening and philosophy of sound (1973) to Michel Chion’s categorisation of listening modes as causal, semantic and reductive (1994) and Jean-Luc Nancy’s examination of listening as distinct to hearing (2007). More recent theorisations...