Hearing cultures : essays on sound, listening, and modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Erlmann, Veit
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.
Edition:	English ed.
Series:	Wenner-Gren international series.
Subjects:	Communication in ethnology. Sounds > Anthropological aspects. Music > Social aspects. Intercultural communication.

Table of Contents:

But what of the ethnographic ear? anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann
Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith
Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter
Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls
Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk
Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn
Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind
Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor
Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull
Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.