Seán Street

Wild Track

Sound, Text and the Idea of Birdsong

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501397981
• ISBN-10: 1501397982
• Artikelnr.: 70104030

Autorenporträt

Seán Street is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University, UK. His books include The Poetry of Radio (2014), The Memory of Sound (2015) and The Sound of a Room (2020). He has worked in radio for much of his life and published ten collections of poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude
1. Dawn Chorus: Describing Sound
2. Recording an Essence: Hearing, Reading and the Imagination
3. Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature
4. Murmurings: Call and Response Between Bird and Human
5. Paths Through the Green Wood
6. Science in Arcadia: The Road to Selborne
7. The Romantic Poetry of Listening
8. Honest John: The Sound World of John Clare
9. North American Sublime
10. Survival and the Sound of Spirit
11. Listening to Ourselves Listening: Voices for Today and Tomorrow
Postlude
Bibliography
Index