Resistant Practices in Communities of SoundDeanna FongLabel: McGill-Queen's University PressDescription: Print – and by extension visuality – has historically dominated the literary artistic and academic spheres in Canada; however scholars and artists have become increasingly attuned to the creative and scholarly opportunities offered by paying attention to sound.Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound turns to a particular opportunity interrogating the ways that sonic practices act as forms of aesthetic and political dissent. Chapters explore on the one hand critical methods of engaging with sound – particularly bodies of literary and artistic work in their specific materiality as read recited performed mediated archived and remixed objects; on the other hand they also engage with creative practices that mobilize sound as a political aesthetic taking on questions of identity racialization ability mobility and surveillance. Divided into nine pairings that bring together works originating in oral/aural forms with works originating in writing the book explores the creative and critical output of leading sonic practitioners. It showcases diverse approaches to the equally complex formations of sound resistance and community bridging the too-often separate worlds of the practical and the academic in generative resonant dialogue.Combining the oral and the written the creative and the critical and the mediated and the live Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound asks us to attune ourselves as listeners as well as readers.
