Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in ...
Porath, Nathan![Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/333/33371949/CHSBZCOP0333371949.jpg)
There is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of Southeast Asia, then, the potential is for tumult, an infinity of different sounds competing to be heard. Pandemonium is not unheard of in Southeast Asia--not least in times of political unrest--but in everyday situations uproar is uncommon, cultural, social, political...