About the possibility to listen to the Other: voice, world music, interculturality

Authors

  • Simone Luci Pereira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.791

Keywords:

escuta, world music, paisagem sonora, mundialização, interculturalidade

Abstract

Starting from a concern raised by the reading of a text of Roland Barthes, 1968 - which stated that the voice is what is really at stake in modernity - this text develops a conceptual discussion about the media listening in the global era. Also addressing the concept of world music, we discuss listening as a form of cultural consumption that can enable the knowledge of the Other, the different, mediated by technical media in the songs, at a time when global and local flows are in a confrontation and negotiation, setting intercultural spaces. In this context, the voice and listening to media acquire a prominent role in a world where identities and senses of belonging are under constant reconstruction. One hears that brings into play new connections between own / foreign, local / global, in that “listening is listening to” (Barthes). Keywords Listening. World music. Soundscape. Globalization. Interculturality.

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Published

28-09-2012

How to Cite

Pereira, S. L. (2012). About the possibility to listen to the Other: voice, world music, interculturality. E-Compós, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.791

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