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Sounds - The Ambient Humanities (Paperback)
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This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims
to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt
seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound
studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that
solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds,
not just readily classified examples such as speech, music,
industrial sounds, or codified signals. Mowitt is particularly
interested in the fact that beyond hearing and listening we "audit"
sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily
accommodated within the concept of "sound studies." To draw
attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for
the social and political functions they serve, each chapter
presents a culturally resonant sound - including a whistle, an
echo, a gasp, and silence - to show how sounds enable critical
social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory,
social order, and art-making. Sounds: The Ambient Humanities
significantly engages, provokes, and contributes to the dynamic
field and inquiry of sound studies.
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