Hearing cultures : essays on sound, listening, and modernity / edited by Veit Erlmann.
"The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues."--BOOK JACK...
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New York, NY :
Berg,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound, and the senses / Veit Erlmann
- 2. Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith
- 3. Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter
- 4. Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls
- 5. Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk
- 6. Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn
- 7. Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind
- 8. Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor
- 9. Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull
- 10. Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.