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Nothing But Noise

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190495103
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Nothing But Noise written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge explores how timbre shapes musical affect and meaning. Integrating perspectives from musicology with the cognitive sciences, author Zachary Wallmark advances a novel model of timbre interpretation that takes into account the bodily, sensorimotor dynamics of sound production and perception. The contribution of timbre to musical experience is clearest in drastic situations where meaning is itself contested; that is, in polarizing contexts of reception where evaluation of musical timbre by some listeners collides headlong against a competing claim-that it is just noise. Taking this ubiquitous moment as a starting point, the book explores affect, reception, and timbre semantics through diverse cultural-historical case studies that frustrate the acoustic and perceptual boundary between musical sound and noise. Nothing but Noise includes chapters on the racial and gender politics in the reception of free jazz saxophone screaming in the late 1960s; an analysis of contested timbral ideals in the performance practices of the Japanese shakuhachi flute; and an historical examination of the overlooked role of brutal timbres in the moral panic over heavy metal in the eighties and nineties. The book closes with a discussion of the slippery social fault lines separating perceptions of musical sound from noise and the ethical stakes of encountering another's aural face.

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Noise Music

Author : Paul Hegarty
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9780826417275
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Noise Music written by Paul Hegarty and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul Hegarty argues that noise is a judgement about sound, that what was noise can become acceptable as music, and that in many ways the idea of noise is similar to the idea of the avant-garde. While it provides an excellent historical overview, the book's main concern is in the noise music that has emerged since the mid 1970s, whether through industrial music, punk, free jazz, or the purer noise of someone like Merzbow. The book progresses seamlessly from discussions of John Cage, Erik Satie, and Pauline Oliveros through to bands like Throbbing Gristle and the Boredoms. Sharp and erudite, and underpinned throughout by the ideas of thinkers like Adorno and Deleuze, Noise/Music is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the louder side of experimental music.

The Relentless Pursuit of Tone

Author : Robert Fink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190908017
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Relentless Pursuit of Tone written by Robert Fink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a broad spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how "sound" functions in an equally wide array of popular music. Ranging from the twang of country banjoes and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume bridges the gap between timbre, our name for the purely acoustic characteristics of sound waves, and tone, an emergent musical construct that straddles the borderline between the perceptual and the political. Essays engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the present day, under four large categories. "Genre" asks how sonic signatures define musical identities and publics; "Voice" considers the most naturalized musical instrument, the human voice, as racial and gendered signifier, as property or likeness, and as raw material for algorithmic perfection through software; "Instrument" tells stories of the way some iconic pop music machines-guitars, strings, synthesizers-got (or lost) their distinctive sounds; "Production" then puts it all together, asking structural questions about what happens in a recording studio, what is produced (sonic cartoons? rockist authenticity? empty space?) and what it all might mean.

Noise Matters

Author : Greg Hainge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441188673
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Noise Matters written by Greg Hainge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man's noise is another teenager's music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen). Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in this way, to find within it a series of operations common across its multiple manifestations that allow us to apprehend it as something other than a highly subjective term that tells us very little. Examining a wide range of texts, including Sartre's novel Nausea and David Lynch's iconic films Eraserhead and Inland Empire, Hainge investigates some of the Twentieth Century's most infamous noisemongers to suggest that they're not that noisy after all; and it finds true noise in some surprising places. The result is a thrilling and illuminating study of sound and culture.

The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature

Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cyclopædia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature written by Abraham Rees and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Noise Pollution

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Noise Pollution written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shouting Won't Help

Author : Katherine Bouton
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 1429953373
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Shouting Won't Help written by Katherine Bouton and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown. Shouting Won't Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition. The result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability—and a robust prescription for our nation's increasing problem with deafness. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Noise Pollution, Hearings Before the Subcommission on Air and Water Pollution ..., 92-2, on S. 1016, 3342, and H.R. 11021 ..., March 24, 1972, San Francisco, CA.; April 12-13, 1972, Washington, D.C.

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noise Pollution, Hearings Before the Subcommission on Air and Water Pollution ..., 92-2, on S. 1016, 3342, and H.R. 11021 ..., March 24, 1972, San Francisco, CA.; April 12-13, 1972, Washington, D.C. written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current and Proposed Federal Policy on the Abatement of Aircraft Noise

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Current and Proposed Federal Policy on the Abatement of Aircraft Noise written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marketing Above the Noise

Author : Linda J. Popky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351861417
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Marketing Above the Noise written by Linda J. Popky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketing today is out of control. With all the new marketing techniques accessible to the masses, it's becoming harder and harder to stand out from the crowd. The result is more and more messages, hitting us more often in new and more intrusive ways. For customers, it's a lot of noise. Through her work with a wide range of organizations from small companies to professional service providers to Fortune 500 companies, Linda Popky has developed Dynamic Market Leverage(TM), an approach to help cut through the clutter, stand out, and effectively build business. Marketing Above the Noise takes a contrarian approach by not focusing on social media, digital marketing, or other new tactics, and instead helping organizations understand: * The critical upfront work needed to really understand customers, markets and unmet needs * The value of consistent, focused messaging * Why empowering employees to effectively represent the brand is so critical * How to thrive in an age of user-generated content and customer driven marketing * Why it's key not to confuse selling with installing The book introduces the Dynamic Market Leverage Model, which measures marketing clout by looking at eight core marketing disciplines and five additional Leverage Factors that can help an organization focus on key aspects of their marketing function that will provide the most significant return on their marketing investment. Today's businesses need to stop trying to keep pace with the latest and greatest marketing tactics and instead focus on developing those long term strategies that build customer loyalty and convince prospects to buy. Yes, businesses need to be aware of and integrate new media and new approaches, but they need to do it in a way that makes sense for the business. They need to maintain a clear focus above the din of the roaring crowd--above the marketing fray. Most organizations don't have the luxury of being able to start from a clean slate to develop new marketing strategies. They have existing customers, existing channels and relationships, existing ways of doing business. With limited resources, they're not able to integrate every new tactic as it appears and they're not sure how to prioritize all of these options. What's needed is a timeless framework--a way of looking at marketing as tied to both business growth and the building and nurturing of ongoing customer engagement. It's time to move the focus from social media and evangelists, sales and marketing alignment, and the latest hot cloud-based marketing tools, to what really counts: convincing customers to trust you with their business--not just once, but time and time again.

The Locke Reader

Author : John W. Yolton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521212823
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Locke Reader written by John W. Yolton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Yolton seeks to allow readers of Locke to have accessible in one volume sections from a wide range of Locke's books, structured so that some of the interconnections of his thought can be seen and traced. Although Locke did not write from a system of philosophy, he did have in mind an overall division of human knowledge. The readings begin with Locke's essay on Hermeneutics and the portions of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding on how to read a text. The reset of the selections are organized around Locke's division of human knowledge into natural science, ethics, and the theory of signs. Yolton's introduction and commentary explicate Locke's doctrines and provide the reader with the general background knowledge of other seventeenth-century writers and their works necessary to an understanding of Locke and his time.

Proceedings of the International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Noise

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147358017X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Noise written by James Patterson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense' BOOKLIST ____________________________ Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they're the only ones left. In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie. The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse . . . ________________________________ 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades' LEE CHILD 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better' JEFFERY DEAVER 'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting' MARK LAWSON, GUARDIAN 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN

Transportation Noise and Its Control

Author : United States. Department of Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transportation Noise and Its Control written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

White Noise

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143105981
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book White Noise written by Don DeLillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Love Reborn

Author : Yvonne Woon
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409591263
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Love Reborn written by Yvonne Woon and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante and I are inseparable...and we are dying. Our shared soul cannot sustain us and our love threatens to kill us both. Our only hope lies in messages from a mysterious benefactor, leading us on a treacherous journey across Europe in search of the secret of eternal life. But our enemies are tracking us. And if they catch us, will our love survive?