Abstract

SECCO, Leonardo. The musicality of the urban soundscape: The ice cream vendor’s cry. Dixit [online]. 2017, n.27, pp.4-12. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d.v0i27.1492.

Abstract: 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

Keywords : sound communication; soundscape; urban sound; musicality; acoustic signal.

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