"Written for readers with no prior musical knowledge, Analysing Popular Music is the toolkit for students in sociology, media and communication studies to analyse, understand - and celebrate - popular music."--Jacket.
Text på omslagets baksida: "Inspired by its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of game design, Salomé Voegelin adapts and develops 'possible world theory' in relation to sound. David K Lewis' Possible World is juxtaposed with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life-wo…
This title engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound.
Listening to Noise and Silence engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. In this original and challenging work, Salomé Voegelin immerses the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday…
This text presents a fresh and sometimes provocative exploration of the key concepts and arguments in musical aesthetics. It draws on the rich heritage of musical aesthetics, while proposing radical new ways of thinking about music as an art form, and our conception of artistic …
"Listening and Voice is an updated and expanded edition of Don Ihde's groundbreaking 1976 classic in the study of sound. Ranging from the experience of sound through language, music, religion, and silence, clear examples and illustrations take the reader into the important and o…