Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.
2010
ML3805 .G66 2010eb
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Title
Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.
Author
ISBN
9780262258838 (electronic bk.)
0262258838 (electronic bk.)
9780262266338
0262266334
9780262013475 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262013479 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262517959
0262517957
0262258838 (electronic bk.)
9780262266338
0262266334
9780262013475 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262013479 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262517959
0262517957
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 270 pages).
Call Number
ML3805 .G66 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
781/.1
Summary
"Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound bombs") over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations." "Most theoretical discussions of sound and music cultures in relationship to power, Goodman argues, have a missing dimension: the politics of frequency. Goodman supplies this by drawing a speculative diagram of sonic forces, investigating the deployment of sound systems in the modulation of affect. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture." "Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard - the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths."--Jacket.
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