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Sounds John Mowitt

Sounds By John Mowitt

Sounds by John Mowitt


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Offers a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. This book critiques on the existing models field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds.

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Sounds: The Ambient Humanities by John Mowitt

This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds, not just readily classified examples such as speech, music, industrial sounds, or codified signals. Mowitt is particularly interested in the fact that beyond hearing and listening we "audit" sounds and do so by drawing on paradigms of thought not easily accommodated within the concept of "sound studies." To draw attention to the ways in which sounds often are not perceived for the social and political functions they serve, each chapter presents a culturally resonant sound - including a whistle, an echo, a gasp, and silence - to show how sounds enable critical social and political concepts such as dialogue, privacy, memory, social order, and art-making. Sounds: The Ambient Humanities significantly engages, provokes, and contributes to the dynamic field and inquiry of sound studies.

About John Mowitt

John Mowitt holds the Leadership Chair in the Critical Humanities at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several books, including Radio: Essays in Bad Reception, Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking, and Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SQUAWKING 1. ECHO 2. WHISTLE 3. WHISPER 4. GASP 5. SILENCE 6. TERCER SONIDO Notes Works Cited Index

Additional information

GOR012498176
9780520284630
0520284631
Sounds: The Ambient Humanities by John Mowitt
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
2015-06-09
184
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