What sounds to survive and what sounds to kill?
Places of sound memory
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Places of sound memory © Editions de La Maison de Sciences de l'Homme
By: Caroline Lachowsky
51 mins
Why do certain music, certain sounds make it possible to survive the worst?
When other sounds, even deadly silences, can kill?
Research and testimonies for places of sound memory ...
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Let us wonder about the incredible power of sounds and music, but also of silence, both as a resource and as a weapon.
How can music and sounds simultaneously allow us to survive the worst: disasters, conflicts, exile?
And conversely, how can the dark side of the same coin be used as a weapon in times of war, and of organized violence, as an instrument of torture also in prison?
Why and how to study the impacts and uses of sounds and musical practices in a humanitarian crisis situation of civil war, exile, detention or natural disaster?
What if we had to invent places of sound memory?
Program on the work
Places of sound memory: sounds to survive, sounds to kill
published by Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'Homme with:
Laetitia Atlani-Duault
anthropologist, Research Director at CEPED (University of Paris, IRD, INSERM), President of the Covid19 Ad Memoriam Institute, and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborative Center for Research on Health and Humanitarian Policies and Practices (University of Paris, IRD).
She is also an Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po and Columbia University, New York.
and
Luis Velasco-Pufleau
, musicologist, his work focuses on the links between music, politics and violence in contemporary societies.
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