Sound as popular culture : a research companion / edited by Jens Gerrit Papenburg and Holger Schulze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papenburg, Jens Gerrit, editor.

Schulze, Holger, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound in mass media.

Sound--Social aspects.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant's gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass frequencies produced by sound systems in the disco era, sound - no necessarily aestheticized as music - is inextricably part of the many domains of popular culture. Expanding the view taken by many scholars of cultural studies, the contributors consider cultural practices concerning sound not merely as semiotic or signifying processes but as material, physical, perceptual, and sensory processes that integrate a multitude or cultural traditions and forms of knowledge. The chapters discuss conceptual issues as well as terminologies and research methods; analyze historical and contemporary practices of sound generation are applied in the diverse fields in which sounds are produced, mastered, distorted, processed, and enhanced. The chapters are not only about sound; they offer a study through sound - echoes from the past, resonances of the present, and the contradictions and discontinuities that suggest the future. -- from dust jacket.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Sound as Popular Culture; I Outlining a Non-Discipline: The Theory of Sound as Popular Culture; Conceptualizing Sound; 1 The Sonic: Sound Concepts of Popular Culture; 2 Sound/Music; 3 Popular Culture; 4 Sound Practices; 5 Sound as Musical Material: Three Approaches to a Material Perspective on Sound and Music; Questioning Disciplines; 6 Sound Studies versus (Popular) Music Studies; 7 Sound and Racial Politics: Aural Formations of Race in a Color-Deaf Society; 8 Sound Studies across Continents: A Multidisciplinary Research Approach

Establishing New Methodologies9 Ethnography and Archival Research in Studying Cultures of Sound; 10 Sonic Epistemology; 11 Historicization in Pop Culture: From Noise Reduction to Noise Recording; 12 Sound and Media Studies: Archiving and the Construction of Sonic Heritage; 13 Soccer Stadium as Soundscape: Sound and Subjectivity; II Formations of Listening: Popular Culture by Ear; Making History by Ear; 14 The Invention of the Listener: An(other) History; 15 Sonic Modernities: Listening to Diasporic Urban Music; 16 On the Modern Listener; Listening Materialities and Techniques

17 Listening and Digital Technologies18 Enhanced Bass: On 1970s Disco Culture's Listening Devices; 19 Baby Monitor: Parental Listening and the Organization of Domestic Space; 20 Over-Hearing: Techniques of Popular Listening; 21 Technological Sensory Training; Concepts of Listening; 22 Listening as Gesture and Movement; 23 Concepts of Fidelity; 24 Loudness Cultures: Practices, Conflicts, Discourses; 25 Existential Orientation: The Sound Knowledge of Fans; 26 Corporeal Listening; III Producing Sonic Artifacts: Hands-On Popular Culture; Material Sound Concepts; 27 Records on the Radio

28 From Stationality to Radio Aesthetics: Investigations on Radiophonic Sounds29 World Music 2.0: Updated and Expanded; 30 Computer Game Sound: From Diegesis to Immersion to Sonic Emotioneering; Production Processes; 31 "Syd's Theme": On the Conceptualization of Audio Production Processes; 32 Sonic Signatures in Record Production; 33 Phonographic Work: Reading and Writing Sound; 34 Listener Orientation; 35 (Re-)Mastering Sonic Media History; Cultural Sound Practices; 36 Distorted Voices, Afrofuturism, and the Aesthetic Experience of the Self as Other; 37 Critical Listening; 38 Sonic Cartoons

ContributorsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-33428-3

0-262-33427-5

OCLC:

945037606