an ear for education: the sonic mode of address in education studies (review essay)
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An ear for education: the sonic mode of addressin education studies (review essay)
Christopher Drew
� The Australian Association for Research in Education, Inc. 2013
James Deaville (ed.): Music in television: channels of listening, Routledge, New
York, 2011, 244 pp, AU$32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-88136-4
Norrie Neumark, Ross Gibson, and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.): Voice: vocal
aesthetics in digital arts and media, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010, 357 pp, AU$40.00
(cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-01390-1
Two recent texts, Music in television (Deaville 2011a) and Voice (Neumark et al.
2010) remind readers that sounds are integral to the construction of meaning. At the
beginning of the twenty-first century in Australian schools, audio-visual digital texts
are flourishing. As multimodal texts continue to be produced online, and television
and film remain central to popular culture, the sonic mode of address remains
important in the processes of meaning-making. The two texts examined here, Voice
and Music in television offer insights into the role of sound at the beginning of the
twenty-first century. Both texts justify their emergence as opportunities to revitalise
attention to sounds in the twenty-first century—a time in which digital and online
texts are becoming increasingly important aspects of everyday life. In this review
essay, the contributions of these two texts to the literature on sound studies are
discussed, and their potential value to education scholars outlined. These texts bring
to light the importance of sounds, and philosophical questions about authenticity
and meaning of sound, in a digitised world.
Within the body of literature in education studies that has examined audio-visual
media texts, many scholars have argued that the ways education is represented in
media can affect social discourses of education and schooling (Hickey and Austin
2006; Kenway and Bullen 2001). In the Australian context, for example, Hickey and
Austin (2006) consider the role that audio-visual media has in (re)shaping
discourses of the student, the teacher and the institution of Australian schooling
(Hickey and Austin 2006; Kenway and Bullen 2001). Children’s and adults’
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television programs, advertising texts and news reports on television and online
variously construct and reconstruct schools and schooling subjects (Hickey and
Austin 2006). These texts have a significant function in helping text consumers
come to know education and schooling. Furthermore, some education scholars have
argued that such audio-visual texts—including film and television texts—are public
pedagogues (Ellsworth 2005; Giroux 2004). These scholars argue that film and
television can be ‘‘powerful teaching machines’’ (Giroux 2002, p. 2). When
examining twenty-first century audio-visual texts, it becomes apparent that the sonic
mode of address is a central component of their meaning-making capacities.
Similarly, proponents of media literacy (Cole and Pullen 2010; Buckingham
2003) stress that multimedia have become ‘‘the major contemporary means of
cultural expression and communication’’ (Buckingham 2003, p. 5). Given that most
students will have regular contact with audio-visual media throughout their lives,
media literacy scholars posit that it is important for students to have the ability to
interpret sonic address. Multi-literacy pedagogies highlight the importance of
raising children with a critical approach to the ways multiple modes of address—
including the sonic mode—work to influence the meanings produced at the
intersection of text and respondent (Buckingham 2003). Students need to have the
ability to ‘‘interpret and make informed judgements’’ (Buckingham 2003, p. 5)
about multimodal texts and to understand that these texts construct selective visions
of the world. Therein, educators are called to be literate with multiple modes of
address, so that they may teach multi-literacies to their students (Cole and Pullen
2010).
Sounds in the school environment are often assigned a certain stigma as
antithetical to learning, and therefore sound is dominantly perceived negatively
within educational spaces (Gershon 2011; Klatte et al. 2010). However,
ethnographic studies of school spaces, particularly, often highlight the ways
sound functions in educational environments as a teaching device—both positively
and negatively (Gershon 2011; Klatte et al. 2010). Environmental sounds can
distract, but collateral learning also takes place as a result of environmental
sounds in the school context. Ethnographic studies of the everyday noises of the
classroom, and students’ and teachers’ relations with those noises, can be
revealing of the ways sounds are central to the production of an educational
environment (Gershon 2011).
Lastly, I would argue that the discipline of sound studies is of particular
relevance to music education scholars and practitioners, where sound is of central
concern (Wright 2010; Mark 2013). The discipline of sound studies provides
useful tools for examining the ways music conveys meanings and produces
knowledge. Music has the capacity to incite students’ passions and emotions, but
also has the capacity to reproduce and challenge power hierarchies (Wright 2010).
Being an inherently social practice, music is integral to many students’
experiences of life and understandings about the structure of the world. By
engaging with sound studies’ theoretical work on sound as a knowledge producer,
music education scholars stand to benefit from its insights into the intersection of
music, meaning and identity.
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Sound studies
Sound studies is an interdisciplinary field of analysis, which has been taken up
variously in media studies, cultural studies, and education semiotics (Gershon
2011). Derrida’s critique of western phonocentrism is of particular influence in
contemporary analyses of sound. In Of Grammatology (1974), Derrida famously
critiques the western idea that writing is a practice that merely imitates and parodies
voice. He argues that this proposition implies that spoken word is a pure and
unmediated practice. Such an approach privileges the voice as a way of representing
the Self authentically, in contrast to the inauthenticity of the written word. Rather,
Derrida concerns himself with the ways speech is also a subjective sociocultural
practice (Derrida 1996). Here, Derrida paves the way for examinations of the voice
as an interpretive and imprecise practice, rather than a pure and foundational way of
representing the Self.
Similarly, Barthes (1977, 1985) was a central figure in influencing a semiotic
approach to sounds. Bathes’ examinations of the ‘grain of the voice’, introduces the
idea that the voice bears the marks of the body. He describes the grain of the voice
as ‘‘the body in the voice as it sings’’ (Barthes 1977, p. 181). This introduces a way
of examining human sounds, but music particularly, not only as language practice,
but also as ‘‘the encounter between language and a voice’’ (Barthes 1977, p. 181).
Such an approach is used within both Voice and Music in television to examine the
embodiment, and indeed potential disembodiment, of subjectivities within digital
texts. Twenty-first century digital reproductions of human sounds proffer new
questions about authenticity when sounds are digitally remastered, becoming altered
copies of altered copies. These digital copies of sounds, nonetheless, carry with
them a grain of the voice, as well as subjective and embodied meanings, albeit far
removed from the body itself (Neumark 2010).
Following Barthes and Derrida, sound studies has developed as a discipline that
examines sound as a socio-cultural practice that is of equal importance and
relevance as the visual. Schafer (1977) proved a formative figure in sound studies
through his development of the concept of soundscapes. He argued for an
examination of environmental sounds as musical pieces which can be analysed in a
manner somewhat akin to the visual analysis of landscapes. Landscapes have
landmarks where soundscapes have soundmarks; landscapes have foregrounds
where soundscapes have sound signals; landscapes have backgrounds where
soundscapes have keynotes (Schafer 1977). In this way, banal and commonplace
soundscapes should be heard like landscapes are seen—with socio-cultural
meanings that can be examined and understood. Sound studies further developed
with the introduction of Acoustemology, primarily through the works of Feld (1991,
2005). Acoustemology is a term developed from the phrases ‘acoustic’ and
‘epistemology’, and is used to show how sounds can produce knowledge and
understandings of the world. Acoustemology highlights that sound is central to
meaning-making, and has the capacity to mediate social and cultural ways of
knowing. Such a phrase emphasises the importance of sound as a social and cultural
meaning-making practice (Feld 2005).
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Sound studies also influences semiotic and social semiotic methodologies (Kress
and van Leeuwen 1996). Building on Barthes’ works particularly, social semiotic
methodologies of the late twentieth century considered how multiple modes of
address in a communication event such as the visual, sonic, written and motive,
contribute to the meaning of the event (Hodge and Kress 1988; Kress and van
Leeuwen 1996). Semiotic methodologies are used to examine multiple genres of
texts including print texts, films and television (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996).
While the sonic semiotic mode had been overshadowed by the focus on the visual
semiotic mode in keystone social semiotic methodological texts of the 1980s and
1990s such as Social Semiotics (Hodge and Kress 1988) and Reading Images: the
grammar of visual design (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996), recent social semiotic
texts have marked a significant (re)turn to considerations of the sonic mode of
address (Cranny-Francis 2005; van Leeuwen 1999; Kress and van Leeuwen 2000;
Neumark 2010). Indeed, it is telling that Theo van Leeuwen, one of the central
theorists within social semiotics in the late twentieth century, and co-editor of
Voice, is using Voice to pause and focus specifically on the sonic mode of address.
Sound studies in a digital age
The two recent texts examined here, Music in television (Deaville 2011a) and Voice
(Neumark et al. 2010), continue discussion of sound through their collections of
essays on the role of music and voice in the meaning-making process. Music in
television considers sound to be a ‘‘fascinating and important aspect of our culture’’
(Deaville 2011b, p. 3). As a semiotic signifier on television, music is an
‘‘atmospheric cue that gives a sense of mood, location, or ambiance’’ (Stilwell
2011, p. 123). Music in television contributes to the academic literature on sonic
modes of address by offering focussed analyses of the role of music in the creation
of meaning, an often overlooked aspect of meaning creation on television (Deaville
2011b). The essays in Music in television cover multiple genres of television
programs such as rural American shows, variety programs, news programs, science
fiction shows and western dramas. Voice, meanwhile, considers the grain and
intonation of the spoken word as integral to the construction of both represented and
embodied subjectivities of the speakers (Neumark 2010). Positioning itself as a
timely text at the turn of the digital age, Voice considers the interaction between
voices and digital texts, offering insights into issues of the authenticity and
performativity of digitally recorded voices. Together, the two texts provide an
overview of the ways sounds are theorised in an increasingly digitised world, while
also providing clear examples of how this theoretical work might be applied in
scholarly practice.
In Music in television, James Deaville (2011a, b) brings together essays on
television music by various cultural and media scholars who consider music to be a
central component of meaning production on television. Deaville argues that the
collection of essays in Music in television is a timely addition to television studies
as, to date, ‘‘television studies ignores music’’ (Gorbman 2011, p. ix). Music in
television thus positions itself as filling a void in the television studies literature by
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drawing academic attention to the importance of music in conveying meaning on
television. Many of the methodological points presented in this text about musical
connotations are not new, however. Extant texts on the semiotics of music have
already offered many of the fundamental semiotic methods utilised here (see:
Cranny-Francis 2005; Caldwell 2005). The value of this text is not in ground-
breaking insights into sound studies, therefore, but rather in building understanding
of how already extant methods might be utilised in television studies.
Through their explorations, the essays in Music in television show the ways
music acts as a cue to audiences to keep them informed about the programs they
are watching and the ‘‘cultural positions’’ (Deaville 2011b, p. 2) that the programs
legitimise. A highlight of Music in television is Saffle’s Chapter 4 essay on rural
music on American television, which provides insights into the interrelationship
between acoustic music and country-westerns. The importance of music in
constructing meaning is excellently explained in his discussion of the ways the
pace of music can set the scene. He discusses, for example, the way upbeat
acoustic music can act as a metaphor for the trotting of horses. Similarly,
Stillwell’s Chapter 6 essay on music in Dr Who explains how musical scores can
be attached to specific characters and events. Stillwell explains that ‘‘ethereal’’ (p.
130) music is often used in scenes with the ‘‘cool’’ (p. 130) Doctor Who. This is
juxtaposed to the ‘‘earthy tones’’ (p. 130) used in scenes with his human and
mortal love interest, Rose. Here, not only do tones act as cues to the appearance
of characters, but they convey meaning about the gendered subjectivities of those
characters. The feminine lover is connected to the earth by the use of earthy tones,
while the masculine doctor is constructed as cool and mysterious through the use
of ethereal music. These essays on the meaning-making propensity of music offer
stimulating insights for the education researcher. The argument that cultural
connotations such as masculinity and femininity can be signified by music offers
the researcher insights into the ways music might function in the representation
and construction of subjectivities. For education researchers, paying attention to
the music when students, parents, schools and teachers and principals are depicted
on screen will help to explain how schooling subjectivities are constructed in
audio-visual texts. Similarly, having students recognise the capacity of the sonic
mode of address to construct characters’ subjectivities is an important part of their
competency with multi-literacies.
Music in television’s Chapter 8 essay (Coates 2011) on the intersection of music,
television and popular culture was a particularly stimulating read and will provided
food for thought for the education semiotician. The chapter explores the political
reaction to the 1965 American television program It’s What’s Happening, Baby!
that was used to promote a job training program to ‘‘high-school dropouts’’ (Coates
2011, p. 165). The chapter discusses conservative resistance in the 1960s to the use
of rock and roll music on television to appeal to the baby boomer youth. Here, the
essay examines the musical program as an element of the ‘‘culture wars’’ (Coates
2011, p. 177) of the 1960s. Popular high school musical-style programs today such
as Glee could similarly be considered as an element of the culture wars of the 2010s.
The messages the music in contemporary high school musical programs—including
issues such as gay and lesbian rights and teenage pregnancy—could reveal much
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about contemporary cultural and educational discourses. Education scholars could
play an important role in continuing and expanding the discussions begun here.
Music in television is particularly useful for beginning and early career scholars
interested in the social conventions of sounds—the book can function as an example
of how to write about the sonic signifying practices of audio-visual texts. The
discussions are accessible to seasoned academics and undergraduates alike. For
education scholars studying multimodal texts, this book offers insights into the
cultural, political and social (Deaville 2011b) functions of music. Education
scholars can take from the book insights into how music makes meanings about
characters and places, and apply these insights in studies of the representation of
school, teachers, students and so forth in audio-visual texts. As Deaville explains,
‘‘Music in Television: Channels of Listening can perhaps best fulfil its own role by
encouraging further study, whether along the lines explored in this volume or from
new perspectives.’’ (2011b, p. 2). When reading this book from an education
perspective, education scholars will surely be inspired to pay attention to the sonic
mode of address in their explorations the construction of schooling and education
discourses in audio-visual texts.
The second text considered here, Voice (Neumark et al. 2010), explores the sonic
mode of address through a collection of essays about how the voice constructs
meaning. Whereas Music in television discusses the centrality of music in the
production of meaning in texts, Voice focusses on the relationship between the
human voice and subjectivity. A recurrent theme throughout the text is the issue of
authenticity of the voice in digital texts. Such a focus on digital texts is timely
considering the emergence and growth of audio and audio-visual digital technol-
ogies such as podcasts, vlogs (video logs) and YouTube in the past decade. Many of
the chapters consider the ways that in emergent digital texts, including YouTube
and podcasting which suggest an authentic and unedited relationship between the
producer and consumer, the voice is nonetheless performative: the voice acts to
construct subjectivities.
Many of the initial essays in Voice focus on the production of the human voice
through digital technologies including voicemail, podcasts and musical instruments.
Central to these essays is theoretical considerations of the relationship between
representation of the human voice and meaning creation. Digital recreations and
recordings of voices through podcasts, radio, mechanical piano sounds, and so forth
are removed from bodies, but nonetheless carry with them meanings and implied
subjectivities—voices ‘‘carry the traces of their bodies with them’’ (Madsen and
Potts 2010, p. 33). Madsen and Potts’ Chapter 3 exploration of podcasting, a
communication technology which has emerged as a result of consumers’ desires for
mobility and accessibility of radio-style audio programs, is a highlight. The chapter
discusses not only the genealogy of the podcast, but also the ways voice is used to
convey meaning. The ‘‘intimate expression of … character’’ (Madsen and Potts
2010, p. 45) through voice constructs atmosphere and conveys meaning about the
characteristics of the unseen speaker. Of particular interest in this chapter to the
education scholar is Madsen and Potts’ recognition that ‘‘cultural and educational
institutions internationally are taking up podcasting as ways of expanding their
voice’’ (2010, p. 50). They cite some American universities’ use of podcasting to
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incite ‘‘intellectual debate’’ (Madsen and Potts 2010, p. 51). This relationship
between education and emergent digital voice technologies warrants further
exploration by education scholars.
Throughout Voice, the essayists return to issues of vocal authenticity in digital
texts. In his Chapter 6 essay on the voice in digital texts, for example, Neumark
discusses the grain of the voice as performative. The grain of the voice does not
simply represent a speaker, but also has an active role in constructing the speaker’s
identity. Here, Neumark considers the ways vocal tones considered to be
homosexual can unsettle gender. Similarly, performativity of the voice is
engagingly discussed in a poetic chapter by disc jockey Mark Amerika (2010)
who reflects on his own art as theft of extant work. Amerika’s reflexive poetic piece
considers his voice as always ‘‘a conversational mix sampling heavily/from the
styles of many other artists’’ (2010, p. 196). Voice is identity work for Amerika; yet,
he sees no authenticity in his voice, vis-a-vis his identity. To Amerika (2010), voice
and identity are both remixes of others’ work. Voice’s emphasis on the
performativity of the voice offers the education scholar a chance to reflect on the
ways our voices are social and cultural formations. The vocal performativity of the
teacher, the student and the parent is worthy of analysis. The performative voice in
educational discourses can reveal much to the education researcher about the
politics of power. The theoretical explorations in Voice can surely be used as
foundations for such examinations of voice in educational discourses.
As Voice progresses, discussion turns to the construction of authentic character
identities in digital texts such as computer games, where animated characters are
made to appear to have human characteristics through the use of recorded voices. In
these instances, ‘‘the voice is often seen as reintroducing an element of authentic
humanity in a world cluttered with machine-born artefacts and animations’’
(Neumark et al. 2010, p. 209). Chapters 14 and 15 on voices in computer games
prove a particularly stimulating read. They offer insights into the ways the use of
human voice and vocal noises in games ‘‘strongly affects the suturing of the player
into the game universe’’ (Stockburger 2010, p. 296). As an educational researcher,
the chapters stimulated my thinking about the ways voice functions in educational
computer games and online gaming sites for students. Further, from an educational
perspective, the introduction of the concepts of public pedagogy and audio-visual
texts as pedagogues (Giroux 2004; Ellsworth 2005) to the conversations started in
the discussions in Voice could contribute significantly to textual analyses of audio-
visual texts. How might the voices in computer games act as public pedagogues?
For the education scholar, the theoretical discussions in Voice will provide useful
and stimulating foundations for studying the sonic mode of address. There are many
opportunities for education scholars to explore the ways educators, educational
institutions, teachers, students, parents and media have utilised digital technologies
to record and remix voices—from YouTube to podcasts to television. This book
provides an interesting read for scholars engaged in such explorations, offering them
insights into the ways voices in digital technologies carry with them sonic
meanings. The theoretical underpinning of the text—which consider voice as
performative and the grain of the voice as revealing of the speaker’s subjectivity—
provide the reader with a framework for further analysis. Voice reminds the
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researcher that the grain of the voice cannot be overlooked when coming to make
meaning of the spoken word in digital and online texts.
As audio-visual texts continue to emerge online, on television and in the cinema,
scholars may find it instructive to pay attention to the ways the sonic mode of
address can shape experiences of texts. As educational institutions continue to
develop audio-visual texts (Madsen and Potts 2010) and audio-visual texts in
popular culture continue to construct discourses of students, teachers and schools
(Hickey and Austin 2006; Kenway and Bullen 2001), scholarly space remains open
for researchers to examine the discursive capacity of audio-visual texts to shape the
education subject’s experiences of education and schooling. As Music in television
and Voice remind their readers, sound studies remains a rich and alluring discipline
at a time when audio-visual and digital texts are flourishing.
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Author Biography
Christopher Drew is a PhD candidate at the Australian Catholic University in the School of Education.
His PhD utilises social semiotic and discourse analytic methodologies to examine the ways education,
studenthood and national identities are represented in Australian television advertisements. He has used
social semiotics to publish in the areas of childhood studies, education studies, cultural studies and media
studies.
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