Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life / by Brandon LaBelle.

Main entry:

LaBelle, Brandon.

Title & Author:

Acoustic territories : sound culture and everyday life / by Brandon LaBelle.

Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2010.

Description:

xxvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Underground : busking, acousmatics, and the echo -- Home : ethical volumes of silence and noise -- Sidewalk : steps, gait, and rhythmic journey-forms -- Street : auditory latching, cars, and the dynamics of vibration -- Shopping mall : muzak, mishearing, and the productive volatility of feedback -- Sky : radio, spatial urbanism, and cultures of transmission.

Summary:

A groundbreaking book in the growing field of sound studies, this text explores how sound permeates all aspects of life, in everything from the streets to our homes and from shopping malls to the underground.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781441157249 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1441157247 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781441161369 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1441161368 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sound in mass media.
Sound Social aspects.
Performance art.
Son dans les médias.
Society.
Akustik.
Alltag.
Massenmedien.
Performance.

Form/genre:

Performance art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266950
Call No.: BIB 199004
Status: Available

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