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The hum of the world : a philosophy of listening / Lawrence Kramer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sounds--Philosophy.
- Sounds.
- Sounds--Social aspects.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Social aspects.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Prelude
- Sound and knowledge
- The audiable: an introduction
- Some leitmotifs
- The standard of vision
- A philosophy of listening?
- Constructive description
- Sight, sound, and language
- The sound of words
- Seeing, saying, and hearing
- The audiable: variations on a theme
- Music in the air
- "No sound without music"
- Language and the human
- Lord Bacon's echoes
- Ripple effects: distant voices
- The infinite broadcast
- Immanence
- Reading transfigured: St. Augustine
- To the life: the image
- Moving pictures
- Modern times: the cartoon
- The sound of meaning
- Music and the audiable: a suite in three movements
- Plato's singing school
- Musical synesthesia
- The music of language
- The soundscape
- Song
- Noise and silence
- Fish, flesh, or fowl
- Sensory hybrids
- "Waiting to be the music"
- Circle songs
- Forty-part motets
- The ether
- Elemental media
- Elemental fluids
- Writing the soundscape
- Haunting melodies
- The lifelike. The undead
- Beyond words?
- The audiable and the audible
- Into silence
- Enchantments of the name
- The inaudible
- On saying "I am"
- The shriek
- Metal
- Here comes that song again
- The mirror of silence
- Rhythmic hearing
- Media all the way down
- The auditory window
- Cacophony: dispossession (Beckett)
- Euphony: repossession (Beckett)
- Worldly dissonance
- Sounds of battle: the Civil War
- Sounds of battle: World War One
- Ulysses in Auschwitz
- Sounding bodies
- Pandemonium?
- Songs of entropy
- By hand
- Past and present
- Consciousness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- author. Hum of the world
- ISBN:
- 9780520303492
- 0520303490
- OCLC:
- 1080554913
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