The musicality of the urban soundscape: The ice cream vendor’s cry
This paper proposes a debate on the musicality of certain sound events that are part of the urban soundscape. A typical urban occurrence is analyzed: the cry of an ice-cream vendor. Based on a sound excerpt recorded at a popular fair in Montevideo, the features of this sound event are surveyed from...
Sábháilte in:
| Príomhchruthaitheoir: | |
|---|---|
| Formáid: | article |
| Teanga: | Spáinnis |
| Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: |
2017
|
| Ábhair: | |
| Rochtain ar líne: | https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/revistadixit/article/view/1492 https://hdl.handle.net/10895/5977 |
| Clibeanna: |
Níl clibeanna ann, Bí ar an gcéad duine le clib a chur leis an taifead seo!
|
| Achoimre: | This paper proposes a debate on the musicality of certain sound events that are part of the urban soundscape. A typical urban occurrence is analyzed: the cry of an ice-cream vendor. Based on a sound excerpt recorded at a popular fair in Montevideo, the features of this sound event are surveyed from different points of view: acoustic, perceptive, and communicational. It is inferred that the ice-cream vendor cry works as a peculiar sound system, and that certain musicality features that characterize it are vital for an effective communication in urban context. This article constitutes a starting point for a further characterization of urban sound expressions in general and for the study of its esthetic and social impact on the urban soundscape. |
|---|