Sound

Name: Sound
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ISBN: 9780521033831

ISBN-10: 0521033837

ISBN-13: 9780521033831

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Authors: Patricia Kruth, Henry Stobart

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This highly informative and fascinating book brings together perspectives on sound by leading experts from a wide variety of disciplines. These include anthropology, physiology, zoology, physics, music, phonetics and film. Through crossing disciplinary boundaries, the volume hopes to inspire a richer and more creative approach to the acoustic world. Whilst aiming for a general audience and presented in an accessible style, several chapters also represent important contributions within their own disciplines or will serve as core texts for students. The sequence of nine chapters passes from cultural perspectives on silence, via the physics of sound, physiology of the ear, songs of birds, and…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.61" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction Patricia Kruth and Henry Stobart



Re-sounding silences Philip Peek



The physics of sound Charles Taylor



Hearing Jonathan Ashmore



Sounds natural: the song of birds Peter Slater



The sounds of speech Peter Ladefoged



Ancestral voices Christopher Page



Shaping sound Brian Ferneyhough



Sound worlds Steven Feld



Audio-vision and sound Michel Chion


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Index