著者

和泉 浩 IZUMI Hiroshi

出版者

秋田大学教育文化学部

雑誌

秋田大学教育文化学部研究紀要 人文科学・社会科学 = MEMOIRS OF FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN STUDIES AKITA UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (ISSN:24334979)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.74, pp.13-25, 2019-03-01

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This article reconsiders relatively recent critical arguments about Raymond Murray Schafer's concept of 'soundscape', especially the arguments of two articles: Ari Y. Kelman (2010) 'Rethinking the Soundscape: A Critical Genealogy of a Key Term in Sound Studies' and Stefan Helmreich (2010) 'Listening against Soundscapes', in order to re-explore 'rich vein of scholarship of sound' (Kelman) in the concept of soundscape.Attending 'to the invention of Schafer's idea in order to wrestle with its redefinition', Kelman criticizes Schafer's bias against noise and his confusion of sound and listening, but Kelman does not consider deeply the definition of soundscape. This article reconsiders the definition of soundscape through rethinking Schafer's explanation in The Tuning the World, Helmreich's discussions of 'soundscape', 'immersion' and 'transduction', Steven Feld's 'acoustemology', Tim Ingold's 'against soundscape', and Paul Rodaway's 'aural geography', in that it situates the concept of soundscape in developments of studies on sound. This article also makes clear the concept of soundscape is not in conflicts with 'transduction', 'acoustemology' and 'immersion', and it needs to be connected with a central and traditional problem of social theories: the relationships between the individual and the social, and depending on how to make this connection, there are possibilities to develop various conceptions of soundscapes.