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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2356185 |
| Date | 07 1900 |
| Creators | Bissell, Jacob Steven |
| Contributors | Ragland, Catherine, Johnson, Jamie, Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca, Sella, Tamar |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Bissell, Jacob Steven, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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