Eating in the real Gozo : sound, authenticity, and identity in Gozitan restaurants

Abstract

The sounds of music old and new, the ambient noise of foreign enclosure, and (in moments few and far between) silence simultaneously compose a soundscape seemingly foreign and near to the Island of Gozo. These sounds are part of the landscape, existing in multiple locales while bleeding into others, welcomed or otherwise. These soundscapes exist in every any-place, but their intentionality is most easily seen when the sounds are actively employed or evaded. Furthermore, it is in institutions, through performance of specified music consumption, that the role of soundscape becomes apparent, especially when examined in light of tourism and transnational flow, specifically restaurants