Soundscape, cultural landscape and connectivity

Authors

  • Kumi Kato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol6iss2id123

Keywords:

sound, soundscape, sustainability, human-nature connectivity, ethics, spirituality, intangible cultural heritage, cultural landscape

Abstract

“Soundscape” is an environment of sound or sonic environment that focuses on the way a sound is perceived and understood by the individual or a society. With the special and temporal qualities of the sound, the concept presents a holistic way of knowing a place, and an attention to a sound distinct to a certain place, especially those distinct to certain human-nature interaction, allows new ways of sensing a place and connectivity (or lack of). Taking soundscape as a conceptual framework and incorporating concepts of cultural landscape and intangible cultural heritage, this chapter explores the role of sound in defining and articulating human-nature connectivity through a sound symbolic to a traditional Japanese divers’ culture. It is a phenomenological enquiry into a sustainable human-nature relationship where intangibility of human-nature relationship human is recognized in a sound.

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Published

09-12-2009

How to Cite

Kato, K. (2009). Soundscape, cultural landscape and connectivity. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 6(2), 80–91. https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol6iss2id123