All Outputs (9)

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article
Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City (2021)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2021). Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City. Reviews in Digital Humanities, 2(9), https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.f34536d4

Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future (2021)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2021). Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future. Music Research Annual, 2, 1-19

This article surveys the field and methodology of historical acoustemology, an interdisciplinary area of study dedicated to understanding past sounds, hearers, and listeners in their historical contexts. The article charts the field’s emergence in th... Read More about Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future.

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2020). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

Organising Sound: how a research network might help structure an exhibition (2017)
Journal Article
Boon, T., Jamieson, A., Kannenberg, J., Kolkowski, A., & Mansell, J. (2017). Organising Sound: how a research network might help structure an exhibition. Science Museum Group Journal, 8, https://doi.org/10.15180/170814

‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the 1935 Science Museum temporary exhibition on Noise Abatement, situating it in the sound historical context of inter-war Britain, and making an argument that the ‘way of hearing’ it advanced was part of an attempt to shape aud... Read More about ‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum.

Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity (2012)
Journal Article
Anthony, S., & Mansell, J. G. (2012). Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity. Twentieth Century British History, 23(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr054

Psycho buildings: Take on Architecture (2009)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2009). Psycho buildings: Take on Architecture. Senses and Society, 4(2), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.2752/174589309X425193

Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927 (2009)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. G. (2009). Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927. Historical Journal, 52(2), 433-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X09007535

This article makes the case for incorporating music into the history of war commemoration in 1920s Britain by examining John Foulds's A World Requiem , performed at the British Legion's first Festivals of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall between... Read More about Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927.