Sound, music, affect : theorizing sonic experience / edited by Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Marie, 1987-

Biddle, Ian D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in sound studies and affect studies. The first section sets out key methodological and theoretical concerns, focussing on the relationships between affective models and sound. The second section deals with particular musical case studies, exploring how reference to affect theory might change or reshape some of the ways we are able to make sense of musical materials. The third section examines the politics and practice of sonic disruption: from the notion of noise as 'prophecy', to the appropriation o

Contents:

FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Contributor Biographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Somewhere between the signifying and the sublime Marie Thompson and Ian Biddle; PART ONE Affective (re)thinking: Sound as affect and affect as sound; 1 Non-cochlear sound: On affect and exteriority Will Schrimshaw; 2 Felt as thought (or, musical abstraction and the semblance of affect) eldritch Priest; 3 My mother's scream Patricia Ticineto Clough; PART TWO Hearing, playing, feeling: Music and the organization of affect

4 So transported: Nina Simone, 'My Sweet Lord' and the (un)folding of affect Richard Elliott5 (I can't get no) affect John Mowitt; 6 Listening to the talking cure: Sprechstimme, hypnosis, and the sonic organization of affect Clara Lartham; PART THREE Affects of turbulence; 7 Spread the Virus: Affective prophecy in industrial music Dean Lockwood; 8 Brace and embrace: Masochism in noise performance Paul Hegarty; 9 Three screams Marie Thompson; PART FOUR Palliative sounds and the marketing of affection; 10 Music for sleeping Anahid Kassabian

11 Relax, feel good, chill out: The affective distribution of classical music Freya Jarman12 Quiet sounds and intimate listening: The politics of tiny seductions Ian Biddle; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441192400

1441192409

9781441101761

1441101764