Auditory Culture Reader

Name: Auditory Culture Reader
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ISBN: 9781859736180

ISBN-10: 1859736181

ISBN-13: 9781859736180

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Bull, Les Back, Palgrave

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Sight and sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience. The very way we relate to, and think about, our everyday world has been influenced by this emphasis on sight over sound. Providing a definitive overview of an emerging field, this pioneering reader is the first to redress a glaring imbalance by investigating how auditory culture subtly and profoundly impacts on our everyday lives. From the evocative tolling of village bells to the grating rattle of exhaust pipes, what we hear influences how we feel and what we do. As technology advances, the world has become an increasingly noisy, confusing and disturbing…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 4/5/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Into Sound




Thinking about Sound



Open Ears




Hearing Loss




Auditory Imagination




The Help of Your Good Hands: Reports on Clapping




The Sound of Music




Songtime: Sound Culture, Rhythm and Sociality




Histories of Sound



The Auditory Markers of the Village




Tuning into London c.1600




Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America




The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age: Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns, 1900-40




Medicine's Acoustic Culture: Mediate Auscultation, the Stethoscope and the 'Autopsy of the Living'




Anthropologies of Sound



A Rainforest Acoustemology




Performing Patriotism in Native North America: Ojibwa Powwow-sounds and the Paradoxes of Identity




Sectarian Sound and Cultural Identity in Northern Ireland




Nostalgia and Radio Sound




Sounds in the City



Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City




Sounds in the Crowd




The Sonic Composition of the City




How Many Movements?




Soundscapes of the Car: A Critical Study of Automobile Habitation




Living and Thinking with Music



Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic




Diasporic Sounds: Dis/Located Sounds




The Sounds of Alterity




Calypso Kings




Bessie Smith: 'Thinking Blues'




'Chatting' for Change!: Interview with William (Lez) Henry



Sonic Dominance and the Reggae Sound System Session




Resistance



Afterword


The Indefensible Ear: A History



Index