Author | : Michael Bull |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Analysis of the meaning of Walkman use in the everyday life of users.
Author | : Michael Bull |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2000-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Analysis of the meaning of Walkman use in the everyday life of users.
Author | : Mark Stuart Spicer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Popular music |
ISBN | : 9780472115051 |
Brings together a diverse collection of voices to explore a broad spectrum of popular music
Author | : B. Lashua |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1137283114 |
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.
Author | : Carlo Cenciarelli |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2021-03-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0190853638 |
The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening explores the place of cinema in the history of listening. It looks at the ways in which listening to film is situated in textual, spatial, and social practices, and also studies how cinematic modes of listening have extended into other media and everyday experiences. Chapters are structured around six themes. Part I ("Genealogies and Beginnings") considers film sound in light of pre-existing practices such as opera and shadow theatre, and also explores changes in listening taking place at critical junctures in the early history of cinema. Part II ("Locations and Relocations") focuses on specific venues and presentational practices from roadshow movies to contemporary live-score screenings. Part III ("Representations and Re-Presentations") zooms into the formal properties of specific films, analyzing representations of listening on screen as well as the role of sound as a representational surplus. Part IV ("The Listening Body") focuses on the power of cinematic sound to engage the full body sensorium. Part V ("Listening Again") discusses a range of ways in which film sound is encountered and reinterpreted outside the cinema, whether through ancillary materials such as songs and soundtrack albums, or in experimental conditions and pedagogical contexts. Part VI ("Across Media") compares cinema with the listening protocols of TV series and music video, promenade theatre and personal stereos, video games and Virtual Reality.
Author | : Leonard Koos |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848881037 |
The richly varied phenomenon of urban popcultures, through distinctive practices and forms, has significantly marked the life of modern city.
Author | : Richard Chenhall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000182339 |
This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethnographies describe local worlds with a deep attention to what is seen and what people say, but with a limited understanding of the broader sonic environments that enrich and inform everyday life. Through a focus on sounds, both real and imagined, the volume employs a critical ear to engage with a range of sonically enriched encounters, including crosswalk melodies in streetscapes, announcements and jingles at train stations, water features in gardens, dosimeters in nuclear affected zones, sounds of training in music and martial arts halls and celebrations under blossoming cherry trees. The authors use various analytic frames to understand the communicative and symbolic aspects of sounds and to sense the layers of historical meaning, embodied action and affect associated with sonic environments.
Author | : Michael Bull |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2020-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000184900 |
The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies itself. This second edition reflects on the changes to the field since the first edition and offers a vast amount of new content, a user-friendly organization which highlights key themes and concepts, and a methodologies section which addresses practical questions for students setting out on auditory explorations. All essays are accessible to non-experts and encompass scholarship from leading figures in the field, discussing issues relating to sound and listening from the broadest set of interdisciplinary perspectives. Inspiring students and researchers attentive to sound in their work, newly-commissioned and classical excerpts bring urban research and ethnography alive with sensory case studies that open up a world beyond the visual. This book is core reading for all courses that cover the role of sound in culture, within sound studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history, media studies and urban geography.
Author | : Nicholas Cook |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2009-11-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139827960 |
From the cylinder to the download, the practice of music has been radically transformed by the development of recording and playback technologies. This Companion provides a detailed overview of the transformation, encompassing both classical and popular music. Topics covered include the history of recording technology and the businesses built on it; the impact of recording on performance styles; studio practices, viewed from the perspectives of performer, producer and engineer; and approaches to the study of recordings. The main chapters are interspersed by 'short takes' - short contributions by different practitioners, ranging from classical or pop producers and performers to record collectors. Combining basic information with a variety of perspectives on records and recordings, this book will appeal not only to students in a range of subjects from music to the media, but also to general readers interested in a fundamental yet insufficiently understood dimension of musical culture.
Author | : Michael Bull |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134516991 |
This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising that the Apple iPod, a sound based technology, is the first consumer cultural icon of the twenty-first century. This book, in using the example of the Apple iPod, investigates the way in which we use sound to construct key areas of our daily lives. The author argues that the Apple iPod acts as an urban Sherpa for many of its users and in doing so joins the mobile army of technologies that many of us habitually use to accompany our daily lives. Through our use of such mobile and largely sound based devices, the book demonstrates how and why the spaces of the city are being transformed right in front of our ears.