1st Edition
Hearing Cultures Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
Edited By Veit Erlmann
Copyright 2004
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Veit Erlmann is Endowed Chair of Music, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.
