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Sonic environmental aesthetics and landscape research

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The environmental aesthetics literature has primarily focused on the aesthetic qualities and values of landscapes. Within this scholarship, there has been a modest but steady advancement towards explicitly attending to the aesthetic experience of landscape sounds. In this paper, I review the theoretical and applied sonic aesthetics literature pertinent to landscape research, and identify some existing weaknesses. In particular, I demonstrate that there is an ongoing tendency to limit discussions to what is sonically pleasing or displeasing within a given landscape, which, I argue, provides a limited point of entry through which to consider the full scope of landscape sounds. I then turn to offer some ways to address these weaknesses—notably through what I term the development of a ‘sensitive ear’, and through field recording strategies—in the hope that this will allow scholars to better enfold sonic environmental aesthetics within future theoretical and applied landscape research.

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  • Jonathan Prior, 2017. "Sonic environmental aesthetics and landscape research," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(1), pages 6-17, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:42:y:2017:i:1:p:6-17
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2016.1243235
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    1. Weixin Lin & Yuan-Cheng Chang & Peng-Fei Chen, 2023. "Environmental aesthetics and professional development for university teachers in China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Key MacFarlane, 2020. "Governing the noisy sphere: Geographies of noise regulation in the US," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(3), pages 539-556, May.

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