Book ID: CBB001180388

Oxford handbook of sound studies (2012)

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Pinch, T. J. (Editor)
Bijsterveld, Karin (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Book series: Oxford Handbooks
Physical Details: xii + 593 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts. Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a study which has historically been undertaken with optical technologies such as slides, graphs, and telescopes. This book questions that notion powerfully by showing how listening has contributed to scientific practice. Sounds have always been a part of human experience, shaping and transforming the world in which we live in ways that often go unnoticed. Sounds and music, the authors argue, are embedded in the fabric of everyday life, art, commerce, and politics in ways which impact our perception of the world. Through an extraordinarily diverse set of case studies, authors illustrate how sounds--from the sounds of industrialization, to the sounds of automobiles, to sounds in underwater music and hip-hop, to the sounds of nanotechnology--give rise to new forms listening practices. In addition, the book discusses the rise of new public problems such as noise pollution, hearing loss, and the "end" of the amateur musician that stem from the spread and appropriation of new sound and music-related technologies, analog and digital, in many domains of life.

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Review Smyrek, Volker (2013) Review of "Oxford handbook of sound studies". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 421). unapi

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Chapter Mody, Cyrus C. M. (2012) Conversions: Sound and sight, military and civilian. In: Oxford handbook of sound studies (pp. 224-248). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kahn, Douglas
Bijsterveld, Karin
Eleonora Montuschi
Adin E. Lears
Mansell, James G.
Kennedy , Stephen
Concepts
Sound
Noise and noise abatement
Sound studies
Technology
Sound Recording Industry
Music
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Medieval
Places
United States
South Korea
England
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Germany
New York (U.S.)
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