A cultural history of sound, memory, and the senses / edited by Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damousi, Joy, editor.

Hamilton, Paula, 1951- editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history ; 50.

Routledge studies in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aural history.

History--Methodology.

History.

History--Philosophy.

Sound--Social aspects--History.

Sound.

Memory--Social aspects--History.

Memory.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects--History.

Senses and sensation.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects.

Memory--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

vi, 270 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in history and other humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their representation. The result has been a broadening of our historical imagination, which has previously taken the visual for granted and ignored the other senses. Considering how crucial the auditory aspect of life has been, a shift from seeing to hearing past societies offers a further perspective for examining the complexity of historical events and experiences. Historians in many fields have begun to listen to the past, developing new arguments about the history and the memory of sensory experience. This volume builds on scholarship produced over the last twenty years and explores these dimensions by coupling the history of sound and the senses in distinctive ways: through a study of the sound of violence; the sound of voice mediated by technologies and the expression of memory through the senses. Though sound is the most developed field in the study of the sensorium, many argue that each of the senses should not be studied in isolation from each other, and for this reason, the final section incorporates material which emphasizes the sense as relational"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Leaning in / Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton

Sound studies today : where are we going? / Bruce Johnson

Part I. Sound and voice

"The world wanderings of a voice" : exhibiting the cylinder phonograph in Australasia / Henry Reece

"Are you sitting comfortably?" : the changing position of storytellers on early Australian radio / Jennifer Bowen

Lindbergh's voice / David Goodman

Noisy classrooms and the "quiet corner" : the modern school, sound and the senses / Kate Darian-Smith

Part II. Sound and violence

Throwing down the gauntlet : voice, power and sexual violence in penal New South Wales / Penny Russell

Startling reports : gunfire as social soundscape in early colonial Australia / Diane Collins

Sounds and silence of war : Dresden and Paris during World War II / Joy Damousi

Hearing the 1965-66 Indonesian anti-communist repression : sensory history and its possibilities / Vannessa Hearman

"For a few seconds, imagine" : an aural experience of six days of terror at the Stadium of Chile, 12-17 September 1973 / Peter Read

Part III. Sensory memories

"Big smoke stacks" : competing memories of the sounds and smells of industrial heritage / Lisa Murray

Intimate strangers : multisensorial memories of working in the home / Paula Hamilton

Botanical memory : materiality, affect, and Western Australian plant life / John Charles Ryan

"If I ever hear it, it takes me straight back there" : music, autobiographical memory, space and place / Lauren Istvandity

Seeing in black and white : visualising "shadow sisters" among metaphors of light and dark / Emma Dortins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Cultural history of sound, memory, and the senses

ISBN:

9781138211773

113821177X

OCLC:

965154089

Publisher Number:

99972061518