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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings Congresses (form) Congresses |
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Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Veit Erlmann |
ISBN: | 1859738230 9781859738238 1859738281 9781859738283 |
OCLC Number: | 56482011 |
Notes: | Papers presented at the 2002 Wenner-Gren Symposium, held in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
Description: | ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson. |
Series Title: | Wenner-Gren international series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Veit Erlmann. |
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Abstract:
'Hearing Cultures' is an examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense - from the intersection of sound and modernity through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space.
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'There's no doubt in my mind that *Hearing Cultures* will become a classic in the developing field of sound studies. Not only does it offer inquiries into listening and hearing -which are pressing questions in the study of culture-but it also ranges widely across time and space, from Egypt to England, from the sixteenth century to the present. Think of it as mandatory reading, because it will be soon.'Anahid Kassabian, author of Hearing Film Read more...
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