Articles by tag "Imagination"

The Ethnography of Enchanted Listening: How Sonic Beings Become Social Facts
Enchanted listening is what happens when listeners perceive in external sounds qualities that can’t normally be heard. They might, for instance, describe “shapes,” “colors,” “resolutions,” or “attractions.” Animistic descriptions are also frequent, with sounds being ascribed their own emotional “characters,” “personalities,” spiritual “drives,” and other kinds of intrinsic agencies. Enchanted...
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