Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life.
LaBelle, Brandon.
Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life. /Brandon LaBelle. - , New York : Continuum , 2010. - xxvi, 276 pages : illustrations : 26cm.
Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo
Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise
Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms
Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration
Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback
Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission
"Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives -- it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an 'acoustic politics of space' by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies. Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us"
9781501336195
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Cultural Policy
Anthropology Cultural
Popular Culture
Sound Social aspects
306.4 LAB
Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life. /Brandon LaBelle. - , New York : Continuum , 2010. - xxvi, 276 pages : illustrations : 26cm.
Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo
Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise
Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms
Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration
Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback
Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission
"Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives -- it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an 'acoustic politics of space' by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies. Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us"
9781501336195
International Book Distributors : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.
Cultural Policy
Anthropology Cultural
Popular Culture
Sound Social aspects
306.4 LAB
