Both music and love are conspicuously absent from the public soundscapes of Hargeysa, Somaliland. But behind closed doors, people listen to love songs. In doing so, these lonely love sufferers and love hopefuls make sense of various challenges. Using accounts from a cross section of Somalilanders, I show that these solitary listening practices open into uniquely intimate and transformative opportunities for dareen-wadaag (feeling sharing). These opportunities critically depend both on listeners’ attention and intention, and on the culturally elaborated affective affordances of love songs’ “voice”—a voice that is conceived as “love incarnate” and that models intimacy. In short, listeners do not just listen to love songs; they listen to love. Their listening practices call for anthropological models that more fully account for the relationship between culturally situated ears and voices, as well as for the complex interrelation of sound, affect, and subjectivity. [listening, aurality, love and intimacy, voice, iconicity, sound and affect, music, Somaliland]

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聆听爱

索马里兰哈尔格萨的公共音景中明显缺少音乐和爱情。但关起门来，人们听情歌。在这样做的过程中，这些孤独的爱情受难者和爱情希望者能够理解各种挑战。使用来自索马里兰人横截面的叙述，我表明这些单独的聆听实践为dareen-wadaag（感觉分享）打开了独特的亲密和变革的机会。这些机会主要取决于听众的注意力和意图，以及情歌“声音”的文化详尽的情感启示——这种声音被认为是“爱的化身”，是亲密关系的典范。简而言之，听众不只是听情歌；他们听爱. 他们的聆听实践需要人类学模型来更充分地解释文化位置的耳朵和声音之间的关系，以及声音、情感和主体性之间复杂的相互关系。[聆听,听觉,爱与亲密,声音,象似,声音与情感,音乐,索马里兰]