CMNS 259 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Soundscape, Eurocentrism, Spectroscopy
14 Oct 2018
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Seeing ourselves through story vs. western models: the structure of a building determines its style; the structure establishes the parameters of its foundation in a limiting way. The type of building constructed tends to be similar to others built before it. This, in turn, limits its function, its use, and its aesthetics. Study methodology: for first nations people, study is directed at that which is not seen, not known, at what is cherished and hidden. It challenges the state of being of the people who are being storied up. Speaking truth to power: indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance. Introduction: examine the role that indigenous storytelling plays as resurgence and insurgence, as indigenous knowledge production, and as disruptive of eurocentric, colonial norms of objectivity" and knowledge. This is where the "lift-up-over sounding" of kaluli son. Acousticians are world"s best sightreaders: all visual projections of sounds are arbitrary, today acoustics is the science of sightreading sounds.
