Title:
The Oxford handbook of sound studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld.
Author:
Pinch, Trevor, 1952- editor.
Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961- editor.
Genre:
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012
Call Number:
QC225.15 .O93 2012
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780195388947
9780199995813
Series:
[Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xii, 593 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Series statement from book jacket.
Contents:
The garden in the machine : listening to early American industrialization / Turning a deaf ear? Industrial noise and noise control in Germany since the 1920s / "Sobbing, whining, rumbling" : listening to automobiles as social practice / Selling sound : testing, designing, and marketing sound in the European car industry / Sound sterile : making scientific field recordings in ornithology / Underwater music : tuning composition to the sounds of science / A gray box : the phonograph in laboratory experiments and fieldwork, 1900-1920 / From scientific instruments to musical instruments : the tuning fork, the metronome, and the siren / Conversions : sound and sight, military and civilian / The search for the "killer application" : drawing the boundaries around the sonification of scientific data / Inner and outer sancta : earplugs and hospitals / Sounding bodies : medical students and the acquisition of stethoscopic perspectives / Do signals have politics? Inscribing abilities in cochlear implants / Sound and player immersion in digital games / The sonic playpen : sound design and technology in Pixar's animated shorts / The avant-garde in the family room : American advertising and the domestication of electronic music in the 1960s and 1970s / Visibly audible : the radio dial as mediating interface / From listening to distribution : nonofficial music practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s / The amateur in the age of mechanical music / Online music sites as sonic sociotechnical communities : identity, reputation, and technology at ACIDplanet.com / Analog turns digital : hip-hop, technology, and the maintenance of racial authenticity / iPod culture : the toxic pleasures of audiotopia / The recording that never wanted to be heard and other stories of sonification
