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The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 Edwin M. Bradley The transition from silent to sound films is a fascinating time in the history of mass entertainment. In the audiences’ eyes, the halting, stagebound earliest “talkies” paled in comparison to the fluid, lyrical silents they replaced.…
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Electronic and Experimental Music: Foundations of New Music and New Listening (Media and Popularculture) Thom Holmes Electronic and Experimental Music is a second edition of a well-known text on the history of electronic music. Holmes’ original book, first published in 1985, was a beginner’s introduction…
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Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Anahid Kassabian How does the constant presence of music in modern life—on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television—affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us,…
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Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience Marie Thompson & Ian Biddle Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in sound studies and affect studies. The first section sets out key methodological and theoretical concerns, focussing on the relationships between…
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) Michael Nyman Michael Nyman’s book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing…
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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner-Gren Int’l Symposium Series) Veit Erlmann Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare’s time hear differently from us?…
