Senses of vibration : a history of the pleasure and pain of sound / Shelley Trower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trower, Shelley, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Psychological aspects.

Sound.

Sound--Physiological effect.

Vibration--Physiological effect.

Vibration.

Sound in literature.

Sensory stimulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, [2012]

Summary:

The study of the senses has become a rich topic in recent years. Senses of Vibration explores a wide range of sensory experience and makes a decisive new contribution to this growing field by focussing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them. This is the first book to take the theme of vibration as central, offering an interdisciplinary history of the phenomenon and its reverberations in the cultural imaginary. It tracks vibration through the work of a wide range of writers, including physiologists (who thought vibrations in the nerve

Contents:

Introduction : hearing vibrations

Nervous motions

Psychophysical sensations and spiritual vibrations

Wires, rays and radio waves

Pathological motions : railway shock, street noises, earthquakes

Sexual health : sewing machines, bicycle spine, the vibrator.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-209) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781441128041

1441128042

9781441118905

144111890X