[Commlist] Journal of Sonic Studies call for papers - Sound at Home

*JSS Call for Papers: Sound at Home*

Sound at home is the hum of appliances, the babble of water piping, the 
chatter of media, and the creaking of a wooden floor; it seeps in from 
other homes and from the world outside – traffic, music, shouting; it is 
the disconcerting, unfamiliar sounds of the places that have become 
temporary homes; it is sounds which go unheard in their familiarity.

In this call, the Journal of Sonic Studies asks authors to 
explore relationships between notions of home and the auditory. We 
encourage studies that consider home as a permanent dwelling for 
families and individuals as well as studies that consider the homely in 
a more abstract sense, as an ideal to long for or a place to dream of or 
run from. The broad aim of this special issue is an interest in 
explorations of the home as that which is close, most habitual – and 
perhaps therefore often overheard – as well as the methodological 
considerations that follow. Examinations might follow the home as 
private and secure, but we also encourage studies where sound at home 
reveals itself as problematic and “unheimlich” (cf. Raahauge 2009; Freud 
1919).

Concretely, we ask how home designs and technologies shape the 
soundscapes and atmospheres of the home, how they are negotiated and how 
they influence the dynamics of the different occupants of the home? What 
kind of “acoustic agency” (Cusick 2013) is expected of the home – and 
what is available? How do we explore “acoustemologies” (Feld 2012) of 
the homes of the present and the past? What can we learn from the 
changes they might have undergone? What methodologies allow us to 
explore habitual sounds, and can we re-enchant (Mannay 2010; Sikes 2006) 
these sounds? What is the meaning of sounds that are transported into or 
out of the house deliberately or inadvertently? How do the other beings 
that we share our homes with influence our sense of home through their 
“sonic traces” (Schulze 2018) and kinetic melodies? What characterizes 
our own “homebody” (Steinbock 1995)?

Proposals for this special issue might speak to some of the following 
subjects and points of discussion, but are not limited to:

  * Soundscapes and acoustemologies of the home and the homely
  * The shifting historical role of sound technologies in homes
  * Power relations and acoustic agency of the homely
  * Methodological approaches to studies of the intimate and the well-known
  * Histories of sensing, habituation and overhearing sounds
  * Sounds as mediations between the home and its surroundings
  * Sound as indicators of safety versus uncanny sounds.

*Deadline*

Potential contributors are invited to submit full articles by *July 1st, 
2020.*

For more information, or to submit an article, please contact 
(sandra.lori.petersen /at/ anthro.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(sandra.lori.petersen /at/ anthro.ku.dk)> or 
(m.a.cobussen /at/ umail.leidenuniv.nl) <mailto:(m.a.cobussen /at/ umail.leidenuniv.nl)>

*Guest editors*

Mette Simonsen Abildgaard, cultural historian of technologies, Aalborg 
University, Marie Koldkjær Højlund, composer and audio designer, Aarhus 
University and Sandra Lori Petersen, anthropologist, University of 
Copenhagen will be guest editors of this special issue.

The Journal of Sonic Studies is a peer-reviewed, online, open access 
journal providing a platform for theorists and artist-researchers who 
would like to present relevant work regarding auditory cultures, to 
further our collective understanding of the impact and importance of 
sound for our cultures. The editors welcome scholarly as well as 
artistic research and also expect all contributions to have a firm 
theoretical grounding. Priority is given to contributions that 
explicitly use the Internet as a medium, e.g. by inserting A/V 
materials, hyperlinks, and the use of non-conventional structures. JSS 
invites potential contributors to use the Research Catalogue as the 
platform in which the submission is presented (see 
http://www.researchcatalogue.net/). Other submission guidelines can be 
found at sonicstudies.org/guidelines <http://sonicstudies.org/guidelines>.

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