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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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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.