The Oxford handbook of sound studies

by Bijsterveld, Karin Pinch, T. J., (Trevor J.)

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Full title :The Oxford handbook of sound studies / edited by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld.

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Continguts: Contributors List of Figures Introduction: New Keys to the World of Sound - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld SECTION I: REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOOR & TEST SITES 1: The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization - Mark M. Smith 2: Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s - Hans-Joachim Braun 3: "Sobbing, whining, rumbling": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice - Stefan Krebs 4: Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry - Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld SECTION II: STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD 5: Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology - Joeri Bruyninckx 6: Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science - Stefan Helmreich 7: A Grey Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920 - Julia Kursell SECTION III. STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB 8: From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome, and Siren - Myles W. Jackson 9: Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian - Cyrus Mody 10: The Search for the 'Killer Application': Drawing the Boundaries Around the Sonification of Scientific Data - Alexandra Supper SECTION IV: SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC 11: Inner and Outer Sancta: Ear Plugs and Hospitals - Hillel Schwartz 12: Sounding Bodies: Medical Studies and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives - Tom Rice 13: Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants - Mara Mills SECTION V: EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO 14: Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games - Mark Grimshaw 15: The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts - William Whittington 16: The Avant-garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s - Timothy Taylor SECTION VI: CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND 17: Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface - Andreas Fickers 18: From Listening to Distribution: Non-official Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s - Trever Hagen and Tia DiNora 19: The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music - Mark Katz 20: Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com - Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades SECTION VII: MOVING SOUND AND MUSIC: DIGITAL STORAGE 21: Analog turns Digital: Hip-hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity - Ray Fouche 22: iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia - Michael Bull 23: The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification - Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama Index.