Tokyo listening : sound and sense in a contemporary city / Lorraine Plourde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plourde, Lorraine, author.

Series:

Music/culture.

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Japan--Tokyo.

Music.

Listening.

Sound--Psychological aspects.

Sound.

Music--Social aspects--Japan--Tokyo.

Musical perception.

Japan--Tokyo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, Lorraine Plourde traces the linkages between sound and urban space. She examines listening cultures via four main ethnographic sites in Tokyo-an experimental music venue, classical music cafes, office workspaces, and department stores-looking specifically at how such auditory sensibilities are cultivated. The book brings together two different types of spaces into the same frame of reference: places people go to specifically for the music, and spaces where the music comes to them. Tokyo Listening examines the sensory experience of urban listening as a planned and multifaceted dimension of everyday city life, ultimately exploring the relationship between sound, comfort, happiness, and productivity.

Contents:

Listening to the city : distraction, attention, and ubiquitous listening

Learning to listen to Onkyō : ear training as sensory attunement

City noise and the avant-garde

"A place where time moves slowly" : analog listening in the music café

New experiences in a new city for new women : ambient sound for refined women

"Feeling uncomfortable without sound" : Muzak as affect management for office workers

Retro shopping arcades Muzak

Sonic air conditioning : ubiquitous listening as mundane comfort

Tokyo listening, listening to Tokyo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780819578853

0819578851