Hearing cultures
Subtitle: essays on sound, listening, and modernity
By: edited by Veit Erlmann.
Contributors: Erlmann, Veit.
Edition: English ed.
Series: Wenner-Gren international symposium series; Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Communication in ethnology.; Sounds -- Anthropological aspects.; Music -- Social aspects.; Intercultural communication.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: But what of the ethnographic ear? anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann; title: Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith; title: Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter; title: Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls; title: Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk; title: Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn; title: Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind; title: Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor; title: Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull; title: Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.