Response Week 4 -

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In this week’s article we see how sound has affected various aspects of one’s community especially those personal interactions that are encountered on a daily basis.  In Mack Hagood’s article about the “Bose QuietComfort Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones,” we see the interaction between sound and personal space.  It was interesting to see how the creation of ones personal space at the same time isolates one from the sound of “others”.  For the businessman, the “emotional, distracting, and annoying” (584) sound produced by those around him is bothersome and he needs to escape from it.  Thus, the need for these headphones is apparent.   There was also a relation between the bothersome noise and women and children.  It implied that they had no business in an airport or airplane that is occupied by businessmen, meaning that there is a separation necessary between these classes of society. There is a recurring theme of superiority of the elite, white, upper-class man over everyone else.

 

The article that  I enjoyed reading the most was Casillas piece, “Sound and Surveillance: U.S. – Spanish Language Radio Patrols La Migra.”  I have personally been witness to the power of radio on immigration issues.  The radio provides an avenue through sound that visibility does not provide.  Callers are welcomed to call regardless of geographical location.  In the reading, we see how sound exercised through radio has the ability to reach the masses instantly, something that television can’t do.  Also, this avenue offers the callers a security, this security allows them to speak openly and without fear of being judged. Spanish radio has found a way to validate the power of sound and under-served communities.