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The Social Life of Sound

Author : Sophia Maalsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811334536
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Sound written by Sophia Maalsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life of Sounds argues for the agency of sounds and music and the acceleration of their social lives in the Digital Age. Drawing upon research with composers, producers, record collectors, DJs and record labels, the book problematises the notion of artistic authorship as it is framed in Western systems of property. Acknowledging that ‘things’ – sounds, samples, and recorded music – and people are co-constituted and that personhood is distributed through things and their reuse, Maalsen makes a case for understanding sound as multibiographical and challenges the possessive individual that is the basis of artistic copyright.

The Social Life of Achievement

Author : Nicholas J. Long
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382216
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Achievement written by Nicholas J. Long and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when people “achieve”? Why do reactions to “achievement” vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement’s multiple effects—one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of “the achiever” as a subject position.

The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

Author : Trevor Cox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324282X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World written by Trevor Cox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In this tour of the world’s most unexpected sounds, Trevor Cox—the “David Attenborough of the acoustic realm” (Observer)—discovers the world’s longest echo in a hidden oil cavern in Scotland, unlocks the secret of singing sand dunes in California, and alerts us to the aural gems that exist everywhere in between. Using the world’s most amazing acoustic phenomena to reveal how sound works in everyday life, The Sound Book inspires us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.

Music as Social Life

Author : Thomas Turino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816982
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Music as Social Life written by Thomas Turino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Music as Social Life', Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the centre of our most profound personal and social experiences.

Sound and Noise

Author : Marcia Jenneth Epstein
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228004500
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Sound and Noise written by Marcia Jenneth Epstein and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define their daily lives in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impact both individuals and communities. Epstein employs scientific and sociological perspectives to examine noise in multiple contexts: as a threat to health and peace of mind, as a motivator for social cohesion, as a potent form of communication and expression of power. She draws on a massive base of specialist literature from fields as diverse as nursing and neuroscience, sociology and sound studies, acoustic ecology and urban planning, engineering, anthropology, and musicology, among others, synthesizing and explaining these findings to evaluate the ubiquitous effects of sound in everyday life. Epstein investigates speech and music as well as noise and explores their physical and cultural dimensions. Ultimately she argues for an engaged public dialogue on sound, built on a shared foundation of critical listening, and provides the understanding for all of us to speak and be heard in such a discussion. Sound and Noise is a timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it.

Sound System

Author : Dave Randall
Publisher : Left Book Club
ISBN 13 : 9780745399300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Sound System written by Dave Randall and published by Left Book Club. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

The Sound of All Things

Author : Myron Uhlberg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1561458333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of All Things written by Myron Uhlberg and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the sights and sounds of 1930s Brooklyn and Coney Island through the eyes—and ears—of a hearing boy and his deaf parents. A Brooklyn family takes an outing to Coney Island, where they enjoy the rides, the food, and the sights. The father longs to know how everything sounds. Though his son does his best to interpret their noisy surroundings through sign language, he struggles to convey the subtle differences between the "loud" of the ocean and the "loud" of a roller coaster. When the family drops in at the library after dinner, the boy makes a discovery. Perhaps the words he needs are within reach, after all. Myron Uhlberg's story, based on his own childhood experiences, covers the almost unique topic within children's books of children raised by deaf parents. Ted Papoulas beautifully and sensitively portrays the family's day and brings the whole experience to life for readers.

The Sound of Silence

Author : Katrina Goldsaito
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316271292
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Silence written by Katrina Goldsaito and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do you have a favorite sound?" little Yoshio asks. The musician answers, "The most beautiful sound is the sound of ma, of silence." But Yoshio lives in Tokyo, Japan: a giant, noisy, busy city. He hears shoes squishing through puddles, trains whooshing, cars beeping, and families laughing. Tokyo is like a symphony hall! Where is silence? Join Yoshio on his journey through the hustle and bustle of the city to find the most beautiful sound of all.

The Sound of Wings

Author : Suzanne Simonetti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647420474
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Wings written by Suzanne Simonetti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a USA TODAY BEST-SELLER, The Sound of Wings is a masterfully crafted tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and the risks we take in the pursuit of justice. Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago. Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history she knows nothing about. Is this secret now Jocelyn’s to keep? Krystal Axelrod is living a life she never dreamed she could have. And yet the demons of a dysfunctional childhood and mean girl culture from her cheerleading days cast their shadow over her ability to feel whole, capable, and worthy. Does Goldie hold the key to Krystal’s path to freedom?

The Perfect Sound

Author : Garrett Hongo
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375425063
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Sound written by Garrett Hongo and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawai‘i, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltrane’s jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joel’s piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.

Psalms of the Social Life

Author : Cleland Boyd McAfee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psalms of the Social Life written by Cleland Boyd McAfee and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sound of Memory

Author : Rebecca Fischer
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814258224
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Memory written by Rebecca Fischer and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concert violinist details the life of a performing artist in the twenty-first century, the complexities of musical inheritance, and the communal role of artistic expression.

There Goes My Social Life

Author : Stacey Dash
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621574318
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book There Goes My Social Life written by Stacey Dash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility, who sold drugs instead of living on food stamps, who settled matters with fists, knives, and guns because it seemed their only option, who stood tall against broken dreams. Dash's rough upbringing shaped the rest of her life—her relationships, her politics, even her faith. She has seen how conservative and liberal policies play out in the real world, and her experiences have made her the proud conservative she is today. That's why Stacey Dash, a Fox News contributor and Hollywood actress best known for starring in the 1995 classic Clueless, is now telling her story. Amidst all the heated racial rhetoric and the divisive language that flows from T.V., the Internet, self-appointed black spokespeople, and even President Obama, Dash feels compelled to speak out and say something true about race, politics, and America.

Searching for the Sound

Author : Phil Lesh
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316027812
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Sound written by Phil Lesh and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary bass player tells the full, true story of his years with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead in this "insightful and entertaining" (Austin Chronicle) memoir of life in the greatest improvisational band in American history. In a book "as graceful and sublime as a box of rain" (New York Times Book Review), the beloved bassist tells the stories behind the songs, tours, and jams in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip from the 1960s to the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995 and beyond. From Ken Kesey's "acid tests" to the Summer of Love to bestselling albums and worldwide tours, the Dead's story has never been told as honestly or as memorably as in this remarkable memoir. "A fun ride...Even for the most well-read Deadhead, there's enough between the covers to make Searching for the Sound worth a look." —Associated Press

The Shape of Sound

Author : Fiona Murphy
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922330515
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Sound written by Fiona Murphy and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and essential memoir of deafness, disability and identity by Australian writer Fiona Murphy

Social Life in the Insect World

Author : Jean-Henri Fabre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Keywords in Sound

Author : David Novak
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375494
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Keywords in Sound written by David Novak and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural, social and political discourses, and suggests possibilities for further research. Keywords in Sound charts the philosophical debates and core problems in defining, classifying and conceptualizing sound, and sets new challenges for the development of sound studies. Contributors. Andrew Eisenberg, Veit Erlmann, Patrick Feaster, Steven Feld, Daniel Fisher, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Hirschkind, Deborah Kapchan, Mara Mills, John Mowitt, David Novak, Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, Thomas Porcello, Tom Rice, Tara Rodgers, Matt Sakakeeny, David Samuels, Mark M. Smith, Benjamin Steege, Jonathan Sterne, Amanda Weidman