"I like jazz, but it is too complex for the atmosphere here": The transformation of modes of individual listening in Czech prison
Abstract
In a "total institution" of prison, inmates are not only restricted spatially, but also forced to live in a specific sonic environment. Understanding prisoners' acoustemological relationship (Feld) to this environment as an essential part of the carceral experience has recently become a research issue (Rice 2016, Hemsworth 2016).
I argue that, following one's imprisonment, the existing ways of hearing and listening begin to transform to fit the new sensory and aesthetic regimes.