Annelies Jacobs is a PhD student in the project Soundscapes of the Urban Past at Maastricht University {Netherlands}. She has been trained as an architect, and also holds an MA in Arts & Sciences.
The project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research focuses on clashes over urban sound, which vary from conflicts about bells to debates about traffic noise and amplified music. These clashes expressed the cultural meanings these sounds had to city dwellers, as well as their views on the character of urban life {dynamic, alienating} and their position in it. This program’s scholarly aim is to study dramatizations of sound in historical documents, radio plays and films—as mediated cultural heritage—in order to enhance our understanding of the continuity and change in representations of the city, notably Amsterdam, Berlin and London. In doing so the program also contributes to the urban studies debate about the role of the senses in shaping our urban experience.

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