Tokyo Listening : Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City /

Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, Lorraine...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plourde, Lorraine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Musical perception.
Music > Social aspects > Japan > Tokyo.
Sound > Psychological aspects.
Listening.
Music > Japan > Tokyo.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Listening to the city : distraction, attention, and ubiquitous listening
  • Learning to listen to Onkyō : ear training as sensory attunement
  • City noise and the avant-garde
  • "A place where time moves slowly" : analog listening in the music cafe
  • New experiences in a new city for new women : ambient sound for refined women
  • "Feeling uncomfortable without sound" : Muzak as affect management for office workers
  • Retro shopping arcades Muzak
  • Sonic air conditioning : ubiquitous listening as mundane comfort
  • Tokyo listening, listening to Tokyo.

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