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1	Precarious Listening in the Domestic Soundscape and Beyond: Objects and Environmentalisms Bissell, Jacob Steven 07 1900 (has links) In this thesis, I examine listening as a neural, cognitive, and behavioral phenomenon that just as much accounts for subject-formation as any other practice of everyday life. I center the performed sonic and musical characteristics of mundane sound objects found within the home and beyond – through direct sensory observation, domestic field recordings, contemporary sound performance, and ethnographic interviews – to ultimately uncover an analytic of precarious listening, or material-semiotic relationships built between sound objects and listening subjects through co-occurring articulations of precarity, such as the breaking down of a family heirloom during end-of-life care, or the shared liminality of transborder students and objects of their material culture. As the domestic soundscape continues to relationally permeate social, material, and environmental significance to (non)humans, I offer precarious listening as a tactic towards an ethics of care against the normative logics of which late modernity operates. Sound Listening, Precarity Time Memory Environment Material Culture Materialism Sound Object Domestic Soundscape Domestic Soundscape Precarious Listening Music Anthropology, Cultural Environmental Sciences