Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION: On Sound, Protest Space, and Constraint
Chapter 1 Completely Packed In
Chapter 2 Red Sunday: Power and Connections
Chapter 3 Atrocity Broadcasts
Chapter 4 Wireless Road and the Ground of Modernity
Chapter 5 Megaphone Singing
Chapter 6 The Megaphonic Somsak Sangkaparicha Comes by His Goddamn Self
Chapter 7 A Quiet Mourning: The Poetry of Dynamics
Chapter 8 Whistles
Chapter 9 Vehicular Stereo Systems
Chapter 10 Developing Musical Economies I: CD Vendors
Chapter 11 Developing Musical Economies II: Stage Musicians
Chapter 12 Spontaneous Chants
Chapter 13 Developing Musical Economies III: Mr. Bear
Chapter 14 Surveillance
Chapter 15 Outer Space
Chapter 16 The Vanishing Point
Conclusion: On Mediated Spatiality

Bibliography

LIST OF INTERVIEWS

About the Author

Benjamin Tausig is assistant professor of music (ethnomusicology) at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on sound and political dissent in Southeast Asia and beyond. With training in ethnomusicology, sound studies, and anthropology, Tausig studies political conflict with an ear toward local practices of sounding and hearing. His work has appeared in journals including Social Text, Positions: Asia Critique, and Culture, Theory, and
Critique.

Reviews

"Bangkok Is Ringing is an important contribution to sound studies and ethnomusicology as well as the ethnography of political movements. It will also serve as an important eyewitness account of the demonstrations of Red Sunday and as such will remain a valuable study for historians of Thai politics during this period." -- Nathan Prath, University of Southampton, Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
"Ben Tausig's gripping Bangkok Is Ringing is a vital resource for listening anew to the sounds of protest and power today." --Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Ben Tausig not only witnessed an unprecedented historical moment but ran with it, and he has transformed Thai music studies. He asks us to listen closely to the intimate workings of a massive Thai social movement. This is a once-in-a-generation book. This is sound studies with its feet on the ground." --Deborah Wong, Professor, Department of Music, University of California, Riverside