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Noise matters : towards an ontology of noise /

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 unpleasan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hainge, Greg, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 r.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (309 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441152862
1441152865