| The Auditory Culture Reader Contributor(s): Bull, Michael (Editor), Back, Les (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472569032 ISBN-13: 9781472569035 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music - Science | Acoustics & Sound - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 2015025476 |
| Series: Sensory Formations |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.7" W x 9.7" (2.45 lbs) 476 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies itself. This second edition reflects on the changes to the field since the first edition and offers a vast amount of new content, a user-friendly organization which highlights key themes and concepts, and a methodologies section which addresses practical questions for students setting out on auditory explorations. All essays are accessible to non-experts and encompass scholarship from leading figures in the field, discussing issues relating to sound and listening from the broadest set of interdisciplinary perspectives. Inspiring students and researchers attentive to sound in their work, newly-commissioned and classical excerpts bring urban research and ethnography alive with sensory case studies that open up a world beyond the visual. This book is core reading for all courses that cover the role of sound in culture, within sound studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history, media studies and urban geography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Howes, David: - DAVID HOWES is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University and the general editor of the Sensory Formations series from Berg. He is the author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory, co-author (with Constance Classen and Anthony Synnott) of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell, and editor of Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader, among other works.Bull, Michael: - Edited by Michael Bull, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Sussex.Back, Les: - Edited by Michael Bull, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Sussex and Les Back, Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. |