Nazan Maksudyan: Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors’ Cries
15. Juni | 10:00
Dynamiken und Erfahrungen der Globalisierung
Tracing multiple auditory encounters, this paper focuses on the aural presence of street vendors in nineteenth-century Ottoman soundscapes, analyzing different listening habits and subjectivities along the lines of religion, class, language, ethnicity, and gender. I stress the way cultural difference, especially intra-imperial difference, emerges in an urban soundscape like Istanbul. I particularly discuss four encounters that are embodied through the auditory practices of street vendors and that shed light upon Ottoman subjectivities, social relations, and power relations: rural-urban migration, representation of multilingualism and diversity, human-animal encounters, and the audibility of gender. The main source for this chapter is a unique audiovisual media object: an album of photos and musical transcriptions of street vendors’ cries in Western staff notation, bringing to light the intersection of the visual and sonic. I also utilize a wide range of silent (written) sources, including materials from the Ottoman archives, literature in different Ottoman languages, ego-documents, travelogues, scientific writings, and newspapers.
Kommentar: Daniel Morat (DHM)
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Patricia Hertel
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