The Realm of Disembedding:Constructing Auditory Space in the Radio Drama"Letters from the Mountain Village"from a Modernity Perspective
"Letters from the Mountain Village,"focusing on the complete poverty alleviation of the Maonan ethnic group,is Guangxi's first bilingual(Mandarin and Zhuang)integrated media radio drama,with both Mandarin and Zhuang versions.It was broadcast on China National Radio's Voice of China in December 2022.From the perspective of modernity as understood by Giddens,"Letters from the Mountain Village"presents a separation of"time and space"at the narrative level,allowing the audience to experience"disembedding"in auditory aesthetics.Audiences construct a new auditory space based on their own experiences,termed the"realm of disembedding."This aligns with the recent trend of auditory culture continuously empowering radio drama creation.The study finds that during the listening process,audiences,by identifying soundscape symbols,are driven by the main dynamic of"time-space separation"and the secondary dynamics of"auditory aesthetic orientation"and"locality of ethnic minorities."These dynamics collectively facilitate the construction of four types of re-embedded auditory spaces:imagistic auditory space,abstract auditory space,associative auditory space,and concrete auditory space.
GiddensAuditory Space ConstructionAuditory Culture"Letters from the Mountain Village"