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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…
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Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art
Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury. From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches…
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Two New Bloomsbury Handbooks: Sound Art and Anthropology of Sound
Bloomsbury Academic is about to release two new handbooks, one this month, the other in September. Both are now available for pre-order. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, 592 pages, available 02-20-2020…
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The Sound of Nonsense (The Study of Sound) Richard Elliott In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the ‘nonsense’ of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before…
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Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean Alejandra M. Bronfman In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…