Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922

奥斯曼听觉与东地中海：声音、媒体和权力，1789-1922 年

• 批准号: EP/X032833/1
• 负责人: Peter McMurray
• 金额: $ 164.7万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX032833%2F1
• 关键词: Ottoman; Auralities; Eastern; Mediterranean; Sound

This project explores histories of sound and audiovisual media in the late Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean (1789-1922), focusing on how sonic practices and their mediations through technical systems produced important new cultural shifts. Far from the standard narratives of the late empire's "decline" or of unidirectional technological transfer from Europe, these histories show a wide range of responses and manifestations of embodied agency, from the government officials and religious institutions in Istanbul to individual shopkeepers and families far from the capital. Sound and related media simultaneously offer a more corporeal historiography of the region and possibilities for emphasizing the voices - both literal and figurative - of women, ethnic minorities and other communities that have figured less centrally in some histories. In turn, focusing on the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean allows a decentering of Europe and North America within sound and media studies. A key component of the project will be an emphasis on sonic cartography, mapping both early audio recordings and textual documents related to sound and media, giving a clearer sense of the cultural and media topographies of this critical period in which telegraphy, audio recording, film, telephony and radio all emerged as key technologies that both shaped and were reconfigured through extant local cultural techniques such as poetry, religious recitation, domestic songs, and so on. The period in question, sometimes called "the longest century" in Ottoman history, begins with the reign of Sultan Selim III, an important composer/poet and political reformer, and ends with the founding of the Turkish Republic, a moment in which the politics of language, alphabets, music and religious sounds were all yet again called into question. As Turkey prepares to mark its own centenary, with increasingly nationalistic celebrations of the Ottoman past, this history is ever more timely today.

该项目探讨了奥斯曼帝国晚期和东地中海（1789-1922）的声音和视听媒体的历史，重点是如何通过技术系统产生重要的新文化转变的声音实践和调解。与帝国晚期“衰落”或欧洲单向技术转移的标准叙述不同，这些历史显示了从伊斯坦布尔的政府官员和宗教机构到远离首都的个体店主和家庭的广泛反应和体现。声音和相关媒体同时提供了一个更真实的区域历史编纂，并有可能强调妇女、少数民族和其他在一些历史中不太重要的社区的声音----无论是字面上的还是象征性的。反过来，专注于奥斯曼帝国和东地中海允许在声音和媒体研究中偏离欧洲和北美。该项目的一个关键组成部分将是强调声音制图，绘制早期录音和与声音和媒体有关的文本文件，使人们更清楚地了解这一关键时期的文化和媒体地形，在这一时期，电报、录音、电影、电话和无线电都成为关键技术，通过诗歌、宗教朗诵，国内歌曲，等等。所讨论的时期，有时被称为奥斯曼历史上“最长的世纪”，始于苏丹塞利姆三世的统治，他是一位重要的作曲家/诗人和政治改革家，结束于土耳其共和国的成立，在这一时刻，语言，字母，音乐和宗教声音再次受到质疑。随着土耳其准备纪念自己的百年诞辰，对奥斯曼帝国历史的民族主义庆祝越来越多，这段历史在今天显得更加及时。