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Title: Sounds Condition: New Subtitle: The Ambient Humanities Author: John Mowitt Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0520284631 EAN: 9780520284630 ISBN: 9780520284630 Publisher: University of California Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences Release Date: 09/06/2015 Description: This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds, not just readily classified examples such as speech, music, industrial sounds, or codified signals. Mowitt is particularly interested in the fact that beyond hearing and listening we "audit" sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of "sound studies." To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound - including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence - to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making. Sounds: The Ambient Humanities significantly engages, provokes, and contributes to the dynamic field and inquiry of sound studies. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 13mm Item Weight: 272g Release Year: 2015
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