The musicality of the urban soundscape: The ice cream vendor’s cry
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https://doi.org/10.22235/d.v0i27.1492Keywords:
sound communication, soundscape, urban sound, musicality, acoustic signalAbstract
This paper proposes a debate on the musicality of certain sound events that are part of the urban soundscape. A typical urban occurrence is analyzed: the cry of an ice-cream vendor. Based on a sound excerpt recorded at a popular fair in Montevideo, the features of this sound event are surveyed from different points of view: acoustic, perceptive, and communicational. It is inferred that the ice-cream vendor cry works as a peculiar sound system, and that certain musicality features that characterize it are vital for an effective communication in urban context. This article constitutes a starting point for a further characterization of urban sound expressions in general and for the study of its esthetic and social impact on the urban soundscape.
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