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Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World) Dominic Pettman Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species, the book explores four different…
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The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Refiguring American Music) Nina Sun Eidsheim In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are…
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Theorizing Sound Writing (Music / Culture) Deborah Kapchan The study of listening–aurality–and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from…
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Beyond Unwanted Sound Marie Thompson Noise is so often a ‘stench in the ear’ – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. *Beyond Unwanted Sound *is about noise and how…
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Sound, Media, Ecology (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture) Milena Droumeva, Randolph Jordan This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is…
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Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture (The MIT Press) Barry Blesser How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater. We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by…
