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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series

Editat de Veit Erlmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2004
Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense - from the intersection of sound and modernity, through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space. As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears? Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters? Why do Runa Indians in the Amazon basin now consider onomatopoetic speech child's talk? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859738283
ISBN-10: 1859738281
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 4 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:English.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound and the SensesVeit ErlmannListening to the Wild Blue Yonder: The Challenges of Acoustic EcologyBruce R. SmithAmbiguous Traces, Mishearing and Auditory SpacePaul CarterLanguage and Nature in Sound AlignmentJanice B. NuckollsRaising Spirits and Restoring Souls: Early Modern Medical Explanations for Music's EffectsPenelope GoukEther Ore: Mining Vibrations in American Modernist MusicDouglas KahnHearing Modernity: Egypt, Islam and the Pious EarCharles HirschkindEdison's Teeth: Touching HearingSteven ConnorThinking about Sound, Proximity, and Distance in Western Experience: The Case of Odysseus's WalkmanMichael BullWriting the World: Acoustical Engineers and the Empire of Sound in the Motion Picture Industry, 1927-1930Emily Thompson

Notă biografică

Veit Erlmann is Endowed Chair of Music, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.

Descriere

As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.