Format:
1 online resource (273 pages)
ISBN:
9780191054655
Content:
Acoustic Jurisprudence provides the first detailed study of the trial of Simon Bikindi, who was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of inciting genocide with his songs. Using Bikindi as a case study, the book develops the many relations between law and sound, and the importance of sound in legal practice more widely.
Content:
Cover -- Acoustic Jurisprudence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Structure -- Part 1 Acoustic Jurisprudence -- 1 Listening to Law -- Harmony -- Music in the Church -- Rhetoric as Oratory -- Law's Institutional Life and the Practice of Judgment -- Deaf to Law -- The Turn to Sound -- Acoustic Jurisprudence -- 2 Listening to the Trial of Simon Bikindi -- The Rwandan Genocide -- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- Prosecutor v Simon Bikindi -- Archive and Method -- Part 2 Song -- 3 The Musicology of Judgment -- Rhetoric: Orpheus or the Sirens? -- Songs without Music -- Doctrine: The Musicology of International Justice -- 4 A Musical Trial -- Song in the Judicial Soundscape -- Song in the Bikindi Case -- Bikindi Sings his Final Statement -- Part 3 Speech -- 5 Voices of Law -- The Linguistic Voice -- The Voice of Doctrine -- The Voice of Evidence -- The Voice of Rhetoric -- The Voice of Critique -- The Singing Voice -- 6 Giving Voice -- Viva Voce: The Solemn Declaration -- The Principle of Publicity -- The Voice and the Letter -- 'The Hearing' -- Part 4 Sound -- 7 Judging the Rwandan Soundscape -- Noise -- Radio -- Audio Recording -- 8 The ICTR as Soundscape -- Architectural Acoustics -- Wired for Sound -- Conducting the Soundscape -- Simultaneous Interpretation -- Broadcasting and the Archive -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9780198735809
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780198735809
Language:
English
