The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines w…
The Routledge companion to sound studies
"The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines …
"The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines …
The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines w…
Introduction: Anna Snaith -- Part I. Origins: Chapter 1. Hearing and the Senses / Sam Halliday -- Chapter 2. Fragments on/of Voice / David Nowell Smith -- Chapter 3. Sonic Forms: Ezra Pound's Anti-Metronome Modernism in Context / Jason David Hall -- Chapter 4. Classical Music an…
"A week after the end of WW2 a nightingale begins to sing in the darkness of a northwest London park. 'Figures of listeners' appear in the nearby lighted windows.1 Part of the 'emanations of peacetime', the mellifluous whistles and trills transfix but also unsettle those within …
What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. So…
"This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanisti…