Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity

Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)
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Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense - from the intersection of sound and modernity, through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space. As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. It answers such intriguing questions as: - Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? - In what way does technology affect our ears? - Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? - Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? - What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters?- Why do Runa Indians in the Amazon basin now consider onomatopoetic speech child's talk? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
Country USA
Brand Bloomsbury
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781859738283
ReleaseDate 2004-11-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781859738283

Country	USA
Brand	Bloomsbury
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781859738283
ReleaseDate	2004-11-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781859738283

Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)

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