Salam Godzilla. Unsounding the 1960 Agadir Earthquake

Aubry, Gilles Joseph André (2022). Salam Godzilla. Unsounding the 1960 Agadir Earthquake In: Ismaiel-Wendt, Johannes Salim; Schoon, Andi (eds.) Postcolonial Repercussions. Sound Studies: Vol. 6 (pp. 21-44). Bielefeld: Transcript 10.14361/9783839462522-002

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In this article, Gilles Aubry examines the sonic dimension of the violent earthquake that destroyed the city of Agagdir in Morocco in 1960. He compares the modes of technocratic listening mobilized by the scientific experts in charge of the city's reconstruction with an oral account of the earthquake by local poet Ibn Ighil. He offers comments on sonic materiality and situated aurality, re-considering also the notion of "unsound" (Goodman 2012) from a local perspective.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

Bern Academy of the Arts
Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Practices and Theories in the Arts > Auditory Cultures

Name:

Aubry, Gilles Joseph André;
Ismaiel-Wendt, Johannes Salim0000-0001-9818-2145 and
Schoon, Andi0000-0002-4390-5593

Subjects:

M Music and Books on Music > M Music
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR

ISBN:

978-3-8376-6252-8

Series:

Sound Studies

Publisher:

Transcript

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] Listen, that's us!

Language:

English

Submitter:

Andi Schoon

Date Deposited:

13 Jun 2023 15:48

Last Modified:

01 Jul 2023 02:30

Publisher DOI:

10.14361/9783839462522-002

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Additional Information:

This text is posted here by permission of transcript Verlag for personal use only, not for redistribution

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Postcolonial Studies Sound Studies Agadir

ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.19345

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19345

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