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Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as…
This title engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound.
Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry
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Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry
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Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry
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An early 10th-century Arabic critic defined poetry formally as "metrical, rhymed, meaningful speech". There are numerous studies of classical Arabic poetry, both pre-modern and modern, that deal with the themes and motifs of poems. Many of these pay scant attention to the formal…
Sound and sense in classical Arabic poetry
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"Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery"--.
"Offers new insights, tools, and methodologies for the design of urban environments in relationship to noise and sound"--.
"Worship Sound Spaces unites specialists from architecture, acoustic engineering and the social sciences to encourage closer analysis of the sound environments within places of worship. Gathering a wide range of case studies set in Europe, Asia, North America, the Middle East, a…
Arvo Pärt: sounding the sacred
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"Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt's music (including…
"In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft contains world music and sounds of the Earth with which humanity represents itself to any extraterrestrial civilizations. This book asks the big questions that the Golden Record raises…
The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media spectrum of film, radio, music, sound art, websites, animation and computer games entertainment, and stage theatre. Using an interdisciplinary approach Ti…
Sound as popular culture: a research companion
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Sound as popular culture: a research companion
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