The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies / edited by Michael Bull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bull, Michael, 1952- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Sounds--Social aspects.

Sounds.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages).

Place of Publication:

Milton : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines within sound studies cover such diverse topics as politics, gender, media, race, literature and sport. Individual sections that consider the importance of sound in an increasingly mediated world; the role that sound media play in the construction of experience; and the ways in which sound has been theorized to produce a distinctive sensory contribution to knowledge. This wide-ranging and vibrant collection provides a rich resource for scholars and students of media and culture.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Introduction: sound studies and the art of listening; Listening to the past: writing sound and sound as sound; Listening to popular culture; Listening to the city; Listening to trains; Listening to the sirens; References; Part I: Introduction: sonic epistemologies and debates; References; 1. Sound as theory 1863-2014: from Hermann von Helmholtz to Salomé Voegelin; 1863-1954: Theories of sound; 1977-1994: Theories on sound; 1967-2005: Sound on theory; 1998-2014: Sound as theory; Note; References.

2. What is sound studies?Introduction; What is sound studies?; What is sound?; Sound studies and sound studies; Notes; References; 3. Embodiment and the senses; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 4. Multisensory investigation of sound, body, and voice; Introduction; Sound, body, and voice definitions as "primal marks"; From familiarity to the novelty of a sensorium challenge; The equilibrium between Wagner and underwater singing; Conclusion; Notes; 5. The return to sound aesthetics; The rhetoric of aesthetic return; Sound and modern thought; Toward a media aesthetics; References.

6. Sound, affect, politicsIntroduction: what is affect good for?; Sound, music, and affect; New affect theories; Transforming new affect theories; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part II: Introduction: sonic conflicts, concepts and culture; References; 7. Silence and noise; References; 8. Sound waves of protest: noise abatement movements; Searching for a paradise of sound; Against unnecessary noise: the first wave in noise abatement (1900s-1930s); Restructuring society: the second wave in noise abatement (late 1950s-1970s); Play back: a third wave in noise abatement (1990s-now)?; Conclusions.

NotesReferences; 9. Propaganda and sound; Sound propaganda in the broadcasting era; Conclusion; References; 10. Sounding out racial difference; Sound and the color line; Phonography and racialized modernity; References; 11. Gendered sound; Gendered-sound discourses; Gendered-sound production/reception; Policing gendered sound; Conclusion; References; 12. Mapping hearing impairment: sound/tracks in the corner space; Introduction; d/Deaf Identity & d/Deaf Politics; Synaesthetic corner frequencies; Conclusion; Note; Further reading; References; 13. The sonic world of the Islamic State.

Background and the study of culture in terrorism and political violenceThe sonic world of the Islamic State; "Go Pro" Terrorism, 2006-14, notable events; Why cultural forms?; References; Part III: Introduction: sonic spaces and places; References; 14. Soundscape(s): The turning of the word; Note; References; 15. The sonic rhythms of place; The rhythmic marking of the time and space of place; The changing sonic rhythms of place; Contestation and the mutability of sonic rhythms; References; 16. Geographies of silence; Space and place, silence, and sound; Spatial silence(s); Transmodal silence.

Notes:

The mutability of geographic silence.

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ISBN:

9781315722191

OCLC:

1065420035

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