Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Steve.

Series:

Technologies of lived abstraction.

Technologies of lived abstraction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Acoustics and physics.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xx, 270 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound bombs") over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations." "Most theoretical discussions of sound and music cultures in relationship to power, Goodman argues, have a missing dimension: the politics of frequency. Goodman supplies this by drawing a speculative diagram of sonic forces, investigating the deployment of sound systems in the modulation of affect. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture." "Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard - the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: 1998: A Conceptual Event

2: 2001: What Is Sonic Warfare?

3: 2400-1400 B.C.: Project Jericho

4: 1946: Sonic Dominance

5: 1933: Abusing the Military- Entertainment Complex

6: 403-221 B.C.: The Logistics of Deception

7: 1944: The Ghost Army

8: 1842: Sonic Effects

9: 1977: A Sense of the Future

10: 1913: The Art of War in the Art of Noise

11: 1989: Apocalypse Then

12: 1738: Bad Vibrations

13: 1884: Dark Precursor

14: 1999: Vibrational Anarchitecture

15: 13.7 Billion B.C.: The Ontology of Vibrational Force

16: 1931: Rhythmanalysis

17: 1900: The Vibrational Nexus

18: 1929: Throbs of Experience

19: 1677: Ecology of Speeds

20: 99-50 B.C.: Rhythm out of Noise

21: 1992: The Throbbing Crowd

22: 1993: Vorticist Rhythmachines

23: 1946: Virtual Vibrations

24: 2012: Artificial Acoustic Agencies

25: 1877: Capitalism and Schizophonia

26: 1976: Outbreak

27: 1971: The Earworm

28: 2025: Déjà Entendu

29: 1985: Dub Virology

30: 1928: Contagious Orality

31: 2020: Planet of Drums

32: 2003: Contagious Transmission

33: 2039: Holosonic Control

34: Conclusion: Unsound-The (Sub)Politicsof Frequency

Glossary

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26633-4

1-282-54179-X

9786612541797

0-262-25883-8

OCLC:

558732720