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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts (Music/Culture) David Rothenberg & Marta Ulvaeus This innovative book, assembled by the editors of the renowned periodical Terra Nova, is the first anthology published on the subject of…
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On Listening Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane On Listening is a unique collection of forty multi-disciplinary perspectives drawn from anthropology, bioacoustics, geography, literature, community activism, sociology, religion, philosophy, art history, conflict mediation and the sonic arts including music, ethnomusicology and…
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In The Field: The Art of Field Recording Cathy Lane & Angus Carlyle In The Field offers a collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists who use field recording in their work. The book explores some of the fundamental issues…
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The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) Michael Bull & Les Back Sight and sound are equally crucial to our understanding of the world, yet the visual has dominated discussions of cultural experience. The very way we relate to, and think…
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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…
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Hearing History: A Reader Mark Smith Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the field’s most important writings, this volume will deepen…