Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the
emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound
Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the
significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book
considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings
as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and
clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and
national and cultural contexts.
Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a
study which has historically been undertaken with optical
technologies such as slides, graphs, and telescopes. This book
questions that notion powerfully by showing how listening has
contributed to scientific practice. Sounds have always been a part
of human experience, shaping and transforming the world in which we
live in ways that often go unnoticed. Sounds and music, the authors
argue, are embedded in the fabric of everyday life, art, commerce,
and politics in ways which impact our perception of the world.
Through an extraordinarily diverse set of case studies, authors
illustrate how sounds -- from the sounds of industrialization, to
the sounds of automobiles, to sounds in underwater music and
hip-hop, to the sounds of nanotechnology -- give rise to new forms
listening practices. In addition, the book discusses the rise of
new public problems such as noise pollution, hearing loss, and the
"end" of the amateur musician that stem from the spread and
appropriation of new sound- and music-related technologies, analog
and digital, in many domains of life.
Rich in vivid and detailed examples and compelling case studies,
and featuring a companion website of listening samples, this
remarkable volume boldly challenges readers to rethink the way they
hear and understand the world.
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