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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality Veit Erlmann Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense – as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. Reason and Resonance explodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the…
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language Daniel Heller-Roazen Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once…
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Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction Caleb Kelly From the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first, artists and musicians manipulated, cracked, and broke audio media technologies to produce novel sounds and performances. Artists and musicians, including John Cage, Nam June Paik, Yasunao Tone, and Oval, pulled…
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Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity Adrian Curtin Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but largely ignored aspect of theatre history. In this book, Curtin shows how attention to this activity enhances our understanding of artistic…
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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) Steve Goodman Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread–to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic…
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Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author Steven Feld This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld’s landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students.…
