RESPONSE: LISTENING TO NEW VOICES: SILENCE, REPAIR, HYBRIDITY

ABSTRACT

In our response piece we are both listening to and exploring the new scholarship included in the special issue "Listening in Unusual Ways in Unusual Spaces: Ethics, Listening and Place." In doing so, we trace three themes within the issue, as well as offering observations from our own listening context. The themes we identify are the possible harm of "applying silence" to listeners, the restorative quality of story spaces, and the hybridity of sound spaces.

Acknowledgments

We are delighted in this special issue to read and respond to the research by new voices in the field of listening and sound studies. We also thank David Beard for bringing together these compelling pieces.

Notes

¹ For an introduction to genre theory, please see Genre Across Borders (http://genreacrossborders.org/) or, for an introduction to discourse genres specifically, see Miller and Kelly [now Mehlenbacher] (2016).