Antropologia dźwięku wobec protestów społecznych i politycznych

Abstract

In the article I consider contemporary social and political protests from the perspective of anthropology of sound and/or sound studies. I do not focus on any series of specific protests or any single demonstration. I refer to these phenomena in a global perspective rather due to the universal specifics of their sound dimension. The soundness of contemporary protests is more than a matter of noisiness and in my opinion it undergoes significant global changes which can be link with changes in the technology of protesting. What I propose it is the anthropological reflection that goes beyond regular interpretations of protests, resistance or demonstrations. The article is the presentation of selected concepts in the field of anthropology of sound, ethnomusicology, acoustic ecology, cultural poetics and theory of voice. Also I examine such categories as noise, voice, democratic soundscape, protest song, human microphone, wave of emotions, sophrosyne or social physics.