The Oxford handbook of sound studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld.
Pinch, Trevor, 1952-; Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961-
2012
QC225.15 .O93 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The Oxford handbook of sound studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld.
ISBN 9780195388947 hardcover alkaline paper
0195388941 hardcover alkaline paper
9780199995813 paperback
0199995818 paperback
Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description xii, 593 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number QC225.15 .O93 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 534
Summary 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.
Note Series statement from book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Pinch, Trevor, 1952-
Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961-
Series Oxford handbooks.
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The garden in the machine : listening to early American industrialization / Mark M. Smith
Turning a deaf ear? Industrial noise and noise control in Germany since the 1920s / Hans-Joachim Braun
"Sobbing, whining, rumbling" : listening to automobiles as social practice / Stefan Krebs
Selling sound : testing, designing, and marketing sound in the European car industry / Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld
Sound sterile : making scientific field recordings in ornithology / Joeri Bruyninckx
Underwater music : tuning composition to the sounds of science / Stefan Helmreich
A gray box : the phonograph in laboratory experiments and fieldwork, 1900-1920 / Julia Kursell
From scientific instruments to musical instruments : the tuning fork, the metronome, and the siren / Myles W. Jackson
Conversions : sound and sight, military and civilian / Cyrus C. M. Mody
The search for the "killer application" : drawing the boundaries around the sonification of scientific data / Alexandra Supper
Inner and outer sancta : earplugs and hospitals / Hillel Schwartz
Sounding bodies : medical students and the acquisition of stethoscopic perspectives / Tom Rice
Do signals have politics? Inscribing abilities in cochlear implants / Mara Mills
Sound and player immersion in digital games / Mark Grimshaw
The sonic playpen : sound design and technology in Pixar's animated shorts / William Whittington
The avant-garde in the family room : American advertising and the domestication of electronic music in the 1960s and 1970s / Timothy D. Taylor
Visibly audible : the radio dial as mediating interface / Andreas Fickers
From listening to distribution : nonofficial music practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s / Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora
The amateur in the age of mechanical music / Mark Katz
Online music sites as sonic sociotechnical communities : identity, reputation, and technology at ACIDplanet.com / Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades
Analog turns digital : hip-hop, technology, and the maintenance of racial authenticity / Rayvon Fouché
iPod culture : the toxic pleasures of audiotopia / Michael Bull
The recording that never wanted to be heard and other stories of sonification / Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama.

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