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Listening to love

cam.depositDate2022-02-01
cam.issuedOnline2022-04-27
cam.orpheus.counter5
dc.contributor.authorWOOLNER, CHRISTINA J
dc.contributor.orcidWOOLNER, CHRISTINA J [0000-0002-0252-7741]
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T00:30:26Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T00:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.date.updated2022-02-01T19:49:26Z
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>Both music and love are conspicuously absent from the public soundscapes of Hargeysa, Somaliland. But behind closed doors, people listen to love songs. In doing so, these lonely love sufferers and love hopefuls make sense of various challenges. Using accounts from a cross section of Somalilanders, I show that these solitary listening practices open into uniquely intimate and transformative opportunities for <jats:italic>dareen‐wadaag</jats:italic> (feeling sharing). These opportunities critically depend both on listeners’ attention and intention, <jats:italic>and</jats:italic> on the culturally elaborated affective affordances of love songs’ “voice”—a voice that is conceived as “love incarnate” and that models intimacy. In short, listeners do not just listen to love songs; they <jats:italic>listen to love</jats:italic>. Their listening practices call for anthropological models that more fully account for the relationship between culturally situated ears and voices, as well as for the complex interrelation of sound, affect, and subjectivity. [<jats:italic>listening</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>aurality</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>love and intimacy</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>voice</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>iconicity</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>sound and affect</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>music</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Somaliland</jats:italic>]</jats:p>
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Cambridge International Trust, Leverhulme Trust, Isaac Newton Trust
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.80995
dc.identifier.eissn1548-1425
dc.identifier.issn0094-0496
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/333578
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Social Anthropology
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/amet.13076
dc.rightsCC BY NC ND
dc.rights.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/cc-by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject4401 Anthropology
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.titleListening to love
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-01-20
prism.publicationNameAmerican Ethnologist
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1111/amet.13076

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