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Title: Sensing Sound Condition: New Subtitle: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice Author: Nina Sun Eidsheim Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0822360616 EAN: 9780822360612 ISBN: 9780822360612 Publisher: Duke University Press Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Release Date: 12/11/2015 Description: In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound—such as air being the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the importance a performance's location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the notion of an a priori definition of sound, Eidsheim releases the voice from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. In Eidsheim's theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical, material, and vibrational sensations. This expanded definition of music as manifested through material and personal relations suggests that we are all connected to each other in and through sound. Sensing Sound will appeal to readers interested in sound studies, new musicology, contemporary opera, and performance studies. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 386g Book Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?
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