Sonic Histories of Occupation

Russell P. Skelchy is an ERC Research fellow at University of Nottingham, UK, where he leads the “Sounds of Occupation” stream in the COTCA Project. His recent publications have appeared in the Ethnomusicology, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Action, and the volume, Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities (2017). Jeremy E. Taylor is Associate Professor of Modern Asian History at University of Nottingham, UK, and Director of the COTCA Project. His research has been published in numerous journals including, most recently, the Journal of Asian Studies. He is the author of Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinemas (2011) and Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei's China (2021).

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
‘Introduction: Sonic Histories of Occupation’ Russell P. Skelchy and Jeremy E. Taylor

Part I: Voice and Occupation
Introduction: ‘Voice and Occupation’ Jeremy E. Taylor

1. ‘The Vocal Apparatus’s Colonial Contexts: France’s Mission Civilisatrice and (Settler) Colonialism in Algeria and North America’, Iris Blake

2. ‘The Hush Arbour As Sanctuary: African American Survival Silence During British/American Slavery’, Maya Cunningham

3.‘Music and Sound in Weihsien Internment Camp in Japanese-occupied China’, Sophia Geng

Part II
Introduction: ‘Memory, Sound and Occupation’, Jeremy E. Taylor

4. ‘Occupying New Sound Worlds: Debordering Sonic Imaginaries in StoryMaps’, Fiona Magowan and Jim Donaghey, with Annette McNelis

5. ‘Loud Town, Quiet Base: Olongapo City, Subic Bay and the US Navy, 1950–70’, Kevin Sliwoski

6. ‘Registering Sonic Histories in a Multiply Occupied Place: Sound and Survivance in Mangota’ay, Taiwan’, DJ Hatfield

Part III
Introduction to Part Three: ‘Auditory Responses to Occupation and Colonialism’, Jeremy E. Taylor

7. ‘The Sonic Occupation of Central Asia: Sound Culture and the Railway in Chingiz Aitmatov’s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years’, Dimitri Smirnov

8. ‘Auditory and Spatial Regimes of United States Colonial Rule in Baguio, Philippines’, Russell P. Skelchy

9. ‘Soundscapes of Diversity in the Port Cities of British Malaya: Cultural Convergences and Contestations in the Early Twentieth Century’, Tan Sooi Beng

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