Publications
- Our publications in Polish – the table of contents and English summaries (pdf)
- The Polish Soundscape Journal (in Polish and English)
- Sounds of War and Peace Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945, edited by Renata Tańczuk and Sławomir Wieczorek
This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed in the fields of sound and soundscape studies, the authors analyse their reflections on autobiographical texts and art. The studies demonstrate the role urban sounds played in the inhabitants’ forging a sense of identity as they adapted to new living conditions. The chapters also shed light on the ideological forces at work in the creation of urban sound space.
- Sensitive Sound Recordings – monographic issue of the journal “Prace Kulturoznawcze”, edited by Renata Tańczuk and Sławomir Wieczorek
We define “sensitive sound recordings” as ones linked to the experiences of trauma, exclusion, and injustice of those whose voices were recorded, as well as the communities to which they belonged. They are correlates of the “sensitive heritage” and sometimes the “difficult heritage” (S. Macdonald) of communities. Broadening the scope of the term “sensitive recordings” in relation to the above-mentioned definition, we could also include recordings that violate taboos, for example, in some cultural contexts, recordings of religious ceremonies or intimate situations. Such recordings, sometimes because of the manner and context of their creation, confront the listener and user with a whole spectrum of complex problems related to the right to collect, dispose, and listen to them, as well as the social, political and ethical consequences of their reuse in research, educational, and artistic prac-tices. Approaching the recording as a form of life and analyzing its biography al-lows us to grasp its social causality and transformation.
