Main entry:

Plourde, Lorraine, author.

Title & Author:

Tokyo listening : sound and sense in a contemporary city / Lorraine Plourde.

Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Music/culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index.
Listening to the city : distraction, attention, and ubiquitous listening -- Learning to listen to Onkyō : ear training as sensory attunement -- City noise and the avant-garde -- "A place where time moves slowly" : analog listening in the music café -- New experiences in a new city for new women : ambient sound for refined women -- "Feeling uncomfortable without sound" : Muzak as affect management for office workers -- Retro shopping arcades Muzak -- Sonic air conditioning : ubiquitous listening as mundane comfort -- Tokyo listening, listening to Tokyo.

ISBN:

9780819578839 (hardcover)
0819578835 (hardcover)
9780819578846 (paperback)
0819578843 (paperback)
(Ebook)
9780819578853

Subject:

Music Japan Tokyo.
Listening.
Sound Psychological aspects.
Music Social aspects Japan Tokyo.
Musical perception.
Écoute (Psychologie)
Son Aspect psychologique.
Perception de la musique.
Music.
Music Social aspects.
Japan Tokyo.

Added entries:

Music/culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306854
Call No.: BIB 252394
Status: Available