The sonic persona : an anthropology of sound / Holger Schulze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schulze, Holger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in anthropology.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects.

Senses and sensation.

Sound.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.

Summary:

"In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences. From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening. This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Quantifying sound

Materializing listening

Corporealizing the senses

In auditory dispositives

The sonic persona

A sensory corpus

The precision of sensibility

Resistance and resonance

Generativity.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

ISBN:

9781501306839

1501306839

9781501305474

1501305476

9781501305481

1501305484

OCLC:

1022266314