Sam Halliday

Sonic Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

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Produktbeschreibung

In this thoughtful and engaging study, Sam Halliday reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748632565
• Artikelnr.: 38224398

Autorenporträt

Sam Halliday teaches in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the Sonic Cultures of Modernity
Overture: L'Inhumaine
The Ear in History: Some Theory
Representing Sound in Literature
Defining "Modern" Sound
Or, Marvin Gaye as Theorist of Modernity
Chapter One. Theorising Sound and Hearing
Sound in Philosophy from Aristotle to Marx
Darwin, Kant (again), and Physiology
Technology, and the Dialectic of Sensory Excitement and Exhaustion
Sound in Literary Modernism
Music Amongst the Other Arts
Music, Language, and Meaning
Chapter Two. Sound and Social Life
Dorothy Richardson and Sound-space
Music as Paradigm of Sociality
Parties, City Streets, and Foreign Accents
Telephones, Radio and Gramophones
Love and the Piano
Wagner at Bayreuth
Chapter Three. Seeing Sound
Substitution and the Word
Substitution and the Image
Inter-art Translation or Equivalence
Light and Colour
Psychiatry, and 'Neuro-grammatology'
On Musical Notation
Chapter Four. Modernising Music
Historicity and Dissonance
Pitch division, Rhythmic Chords, and Synthesizers
Precision and Preservation
The 'phonograph effect', and Jazz
Jazz and the Extra-Musical, and Blues
Coda: musical (un)timeliness
Chapter Five. The Art of Listening
Listening and/as Attention
Memory and Silence
Against the 'Talkie'
Blindness and Cathected Space
Coda: Listening as Life
Bibliography
Index.