Experiencing Sound : The Sensation of Being.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Lawrence.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sounds--Philosophy.

Sounds.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Sounds--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience--sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of place among the senses and demonstrates how paying attention to sound can transform how we make meaning out of experience. Through a series of brief, lyrical forays, Kramer shows that sound, whether heard or unheard, is the object of a primary need and an essential component in the sensation of being alive and the perception of time. It is something that we may suffer--or be made to suffer--as well as enjoy. Like its predecessor The Hum of the World, this book ranges widely across music, philosophy, literature, art, media, and history, from classical antiquity to the present, as it invites us to experience sound anew.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. June 24, 2019: The Wind on Mars

2. Listening for the Llamas

3. Auditory Epiphanies

4. Sound and World

5. Listening to Silence

6. Calm Sea: Going Nowhere, Hearing Nothing

7. Prisons of Silence

8. Just One Sound

9. Song and Sound

10. Already Music

11. Coming Alive

12. The Vocal Telegraph

13. The Ravished Ear

14. Campaniles

15. Cannonades

16. Soundless Hearing

17. The Talking Dead

18. From Sounds to Sound

19. Fictitious Sounds

20. Bells

21. Dis/Embodiment

22. Threads

23. Playback

24. Shorthand

25. Poems to Music

26. Grooves

27. Grooves II: Spacing

28. Beyond Analogy

29. Phonogram and Gramophone

30. Forest Murmurs

31. Epithet

32. Mesmerizing Sound

33. Cathay

34. Night. A Street. No Lamps.

35. The Resonating Cure

36. The Voice of Language

37. Nocturne. Another City.

38. Annals of Slavery: A Violin

39. The Grammar of Uncertainty

40. Aftersounds

41. Persistence of Hearing

42. Annals of Slavery II: A Vigil

43. A Voice in a Box

44. The Contralto Mystique: Intercession

45. The Contralto Mystique II: Departure

46. Two Lynchings

47. "White Christmas": Saigon, 1975

48. The Ghetto: New York, 1904

49. Testimony

50. Voice

51. Inner Speech

52. The Deafness of Narcissus

53. Sound in the Making

54. Housewarming

55. Language Dead or Alive

56. Hearing Plato's Cave

57. Speaking and Being

58. Minding the Senses

59. LP: Longplayer

60. Harmonies of the World

61. Uneven Measures

62. Sound, Finitude, Music

63. The Shards of the Infinite

64. A Passing Synthesis

65. Aeolian Visitations

66. Harmonizing

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Kramer, Lawrence Experiencing Sound

ISBN:

9780520400856

OCLC:

1446800399