Acoustic territories [[electronic resource] ] : sound culture and everyday life / / by Brandon LaBelle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910534354903321
• Autore: LaBelle Brandon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Continuum, c2010
• ISBN: 1-5013-3620-7; 1-5013-3619-3; 1-5013-3618-5; 1-5013-3621-5; 1-282-87604-X; 9786612876042; 1-4411-7725-6
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetti: Sound in mass media; Sound - Social aspects; Performance art; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives - it challenges debates surrounding ; noise pollution and charts an "acoustic politics of space" by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and