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Sound objects / editors, James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019Description: viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478001454
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sound objectsDDC classification:
  • 534.01 STE 23
LOC classification:
  • QC225.7 .S68 2019
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 534.01 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100610758

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation? What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound's elusive objectivity. Examining the genealogy and evolution of the concept of the sound object, the commodification of sound, acousmatic listening, nonhuman sounds, and sound and memory, the contributors not only probe conceptual issues that lie in the forefront of contemporary sonic discussions but also underscore auditory experience as fundamental to sound as a critical enterprise. In so doing, they offer exciting considerations of sound within and beyond its role in meaning, communication, and information and an illuminatingly original theoretical overview of the field of sound studies itself.



Contributors. Georgina Born, Michael Bull, Michel Chion, Rey Chow, John Dack, Veit Erlmann, Brian Kane, Jairo Moreno, John Mowitt, Pooja Rangan, Gavin Steingo, James A. Steintrager, Jonathan Sterne, David Toop

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments (p. vii)
  • Sound Objects: An Introduction (p. 1)
  • I Genealogies
  • 1 Reflections on the Sound Object and Reduced Listening (p. 23)
  • 2 Pierre Schaeffer and the (Recorded) Sound Source (p. 33)
  • 3 The Fluctuating Sound Object (p. 53)
  • II Aural Reification, Sonic Commodification
  • 4 Listening with Adorno, Again: Nonobjective Objectivity and the Possibility of Critique (p. 73)
  • 5 Spectral Objects: On the Fetish Character of Music Technologies (p. 94)
  • III Acousmatic Complications
  • 6 Listening after "Acousmaticity": Notes on a Transdisciplinary Problematic (p. 113)
  • 7 The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial listening (p. 130)
  • IV Sound Abjects And Nonhuman Relations
  • 8 The Acoustic Abject: Sound and the Legal Imagination (p. 151)
  • 9 The Alluring Objecthood of the Heartbeat (p. 167)
  • 10 On Nonhuman Sound-Sound as Relation (p. 185)
  • V Memory Traces
  • 11 The Sound of Arche-Cinema (p. 211)
  • 12 Listening to the Sirens (p. 228)
  • 13 Entities Inertias Faint Beings: Drawing as Sounding (p. 246)
  • Bibliography (p. 265)
  • Contributors (p. 281)
  • Index (p. 285)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James A. Steintrager is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University.

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