Title:
Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life / by Brandon LaBelle.
Author:
LaBelle, Brandon.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Call Number:
P96 .S66 L33 2010
Abstract:
A groundbreaking book in the growing field of sound studies, this text explores how sound permeates all aspects of life, in everything from the streets to our homes and from shopping malls to the underground.
ISBN:
9781441157249
9781441161369
Physical Description:
xxvi, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
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.
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