On the Sound-Sea : Fifteen Ways of Thinking about Sand and Sound

Baker, Brian (2020) On the Sound-Sea : Fifteen Ways of Thinking about Sand and Sound. In: Sandscapes : Writing the British Seaside. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 107-123. ISBN 978-3030447793

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Abstract

This chapter uses a formally granular approach to imagining the relation between sand and sound. It takes the beach as a key motif in both literature and music as a space between, a space in which the listener hears the call of the sea and responds to that call. In 15 different ways, including personal reflections as well as analysis, this chapter takes a critical-creative method to rethink the intertidal space as a place of possibility and transformation, and of beginnings and endings.