Ubiquitous Listening : Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity / / Anahid Kassabian

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786229003321
• Autore: Kassabian Anahid
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95486-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.11
• Soggetti: Listening; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Sound; Music - Philosophy and aesthetics
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ubiquitous Listening -- 2. Listening to Video Art and the Problem of Too Many Homelands -- 3. "BOOM!" Is the Next Big Thing -- 4. Musicals Hit the Small Screen -- 5. Improvising Diasporan Identities -- 6. Would You Like Some World Music with Your Latte? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such passive listening? In Ubiquitous Listening, Anahid Kassabian investigates the many sounds that surround us and argues that this ubiquity has led to different kinds of listening. Kassabian argues for a new examination of the music we do not normally hear (and by implication, that we do), one that examines the way it is used as a marketing tool and a mood modulator, and exploring the ways we engage with this music.