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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life 2nd edition


Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life 2nd edition

Hardback by LaBelle, Brandon (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life

£110.00

ISBN:
9781501336188
Publication Date:
17 Oct 2019
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Pages:
248 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 16 - 21 May 2024
Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life

Description

The revised edition of 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 sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture, street life and sonic technologies, Acoustic Territories opens up a range of critical perspectives--it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an "acoustic politics of space" by engaging auditory experience as found within particular cultural histories and related ideologies. Brandon LaBelle traces sound culture through a topographic structure: from underground territories to the home, and further, into the rhythms and vibrations of streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself as an arena of transmitted imaginaries. The new edition includes an additional "global territory" of the relational, positioning acoustics as a range of everyday practices that rework dominant tonalities. Questions of orientation and emplacement are critically raised, reframing listening as multi-modal and intrinsic to resistant socialities and what the author terms "acts of compositioning." The book is fully updated to include new relevant research and references surfacing since 2010, as well as a new preface to the second edition. Acoustic Territories continues to uncover the embedded tensions and potentialities inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Chapter 1: Underground: Busking, Acousmatics, and the Echo Chapter 2: Home: Ethical Volumes of Silence and Noise Chapter 3: Sidewalk: Steps, Gait, and Rhythmic Journey-Forms Chapter 4: Street: Auditory Latching, Cars, and the Dynamics of Vibration Chapter 5: Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of Feedback Chapter 6: Sky: Radio, Spatial Urbanism, and Cultures of Transmission Epilogue: Queer Listening, Acoustic Justice, and Acts of Compositioning Notes Bibliography Index

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