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Sensing sound : singing and listening as vibrational practice / Nina Sun Eidsheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eidsheim, Nina Sun, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Sign, storage, transmission.
- Sign, storage, transmission
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sound.
- Singing.
- Vibration.
- Music--Acoustics and physics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings.
- Contents:
- Music's material dependency : what underwater opera can tell us about Odysseus's ears
- The acoustic mediation of voice, self, and others
- Music as action : singing happens before sound
- All voice, all ears : from the figure of sound to the practice of music
- Music as a vibrational practice : singing and listening as everything and nothing.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374695
- 0822374692
- OCLC:
- 925029589
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