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Thresholds of Listening : Sound, Technics, Space

This collection of essays addresses recent and historical changes in the ways in which listening has been conceived as a cultural agency and act. It argues that listening, by emancipating from an essentially implied, passive-receiving, and subjected position, has become an explicit factor in culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maas, Sander van
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front ; contents; Introduction; The Auditory Re-Turn (The Point of Listening); "Dear Listener . . ."; Scenes of Inner Devastation; Positive Feedback; "Antennas Have Long Since Invaded Our Brains"; Movement at the Boundaries of Listening, Composition, and Performance; The Biopolitics of Noise; Torture as an Instrument of Music; Stop It, I Like It!; Sounds of Belonging; Back to the Beat; The Discovery of Slowness in Music; Negotiating Ecstasy; Index.