Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination

Evidence

When sound power is sufficient to create a large acoustic profile, we may speak of it, too, as imperialistic. For instance, a man with a loudspeaker is more imperialistic than one without because he can dominate more acoustic space. A man with a shovel is not imperialistic, but a man with a jackhammer is because he has the power to interrupt and dominate other acoustic activities in the vicinity. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines acoustic imperialism as the capacity of sound to dominate a spatial acoustic profile.
• SEED: Essay angle: mapping urban power through who gets to make the loudest, most domineering sounds.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267
• XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century musical form and instruments mirrored industrial aggression — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 392; Noise by-laws function as ethnographic records of cultural sound attitudes — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 646; The unattainable ideal of absolute silence is necessary to resist noise’s control — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 616 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329
• The unattainable ideal of absolute silence is necessary to resist noise’s control #expands (0.65) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 616