Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds
of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings.
Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the
dangerous elements of siren sounds - from the US Cold War public
training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of
the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee
Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen
to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists
from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren
sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that sirens
represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness
embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses
the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic
meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.
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