Hearing Cultures

Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
Herausgeber: Erlmann, Veit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 176mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781859738238
• ISBN-10: 1859738230
• Artikelnr.: 21606972

Autorenporträt

Veit Erlmann is Endowed Chair of Music, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound and the SensesVeit
ErlmannListening to the Wild Blue Yonder: The Challenges of Acoustic
EcologyBruce R. SmithAmbiguous Traces, Mishearing and Auditory SpacePaul
CarterLanguage and Nature in Sound AlignmentJanice B. NuckollsRaising
Spirits and Restoring Souls: Early Modern Medical Explanations for Music's
EffectsPenelope GoukEther Ore: Mining Vibrations in American Modernist
MusicDouglas KahnHearing Modernity: Egypt, Islam and the Pious EarCharles
HirschkindEdison's Teeth: Touching HearingSteven ConnorThinking about
Sound, Proximity, and Distance in Western Experience: The Case of
Odysseus's WalkmanMichael BullWriting the World: Acoustical Engineers and
the Empire of Sound in the Motion Picture Industry, 1927-1930Emily Thompson