The art of noise: Comment on The sound of silence
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Citations
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Integrating experiences: Body and mind moving between contexts
西線無戰事 = All quiet on the Western Front
Being critically ill and surrounded by sound and noise. Patient experiences, staff awareness and future challenges
References
The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
Le moi-peau
Symbol formation : an organismic-developmental approach to language and the expression of thought
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology
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Frequently Asked Questions (8)
Q2. What is the role of sound in the development of their thinking capacities?
Sound plays a fundamental role in early interactions, as touch and smell – so that sound can be said to participate to the constitution of ‘‘sonor psychic envelop’’ (Anzieu, 1995) – one of the constituents of their thinking capacities.
Q3. Why are words and sounds equivalent to the construction of an experience?
If words and sounds can be equivalent of the construction of an experience, if noise can be used for music, it is because ‘‘sounds’’ are not simply perceptions; they are active constructions.
Q4. what is the role of imagination in cultural psychology?
She has a long-standing interest for the role of art and fiction in their understanding of reality and is currently examining the role of imagination.
Q5. What is the significance of the nostalgia of migrants for their homeland landscapes?
the nostalgia of migrants for their homeland landscapes or for the shape of the houses of their village speaks for such deep connections between their material environments and their identities and sense of what feels homely.
Q6. What is the author's recent book?
Her most recent book is Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis: Pathways to Synthesis (S. Salvatore & T. Zittoun (Eds.), 2011, Information Age Publishing).
Q7. Why do people who are not exposed to their presence, shapes, volumes, colours and sounds contribute?
These geographical, material and urban spaces interest cultural psychology because they constitute human environments, and more precisely, because as people move through them, in time, they are constantly exposed to their presence, shapes, volumes, colours and sounds, and contribute to them.
Q8. What is the main point of the article?
Studying sound from a cultural psychological perspective demands more than an analysis of separated perceptions; rather, it demands to approach sound as one of the many components by which people experience their worlds.