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  • The Soundscape

    Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World

    by R. Murray Schafer

    The soundscape--a term coined by the author--is our sonic environment, the ever-present array of noises with which we all live. Beginning with the primordial sounds of nature, we have experienced an ever-increasing complexity of our sonic surroundings. As civilization develops, new noises rise up around us: from the creaking wheel, the clang of the blacksmith’s hammer, and the distant chugging of ... Read more

    € 11,01

  • The Game Music Handbook

    A Practical Guide to Crafting an Unforgettable Musical Soundscape

    by Noah Kellman

    Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer? The Game Music Handbook is for you. This book takes readers on a journey through many of the greatest video game soundscapes to date, discussing key concepts and technical practices for how to create top-level game scores. It organizes game scoring techniques into an applicable methodology that gives ... Read more

    € 20,15

  • The Crawfish Circuit

    An Investigation of the Musical Soundscape of Southwest Louisiana

    by Giraud Polite

    This creative dissertation addresses the process and implications of documenting and exhibiting a musical soundscape, utilizing the culture of southwest Louisiana as an anchor. From an insider's perspective, the scholarly essay interrogates the photographer's privilege and civil contract within a cultural, historical, and artistic framework. This study examines the relationship between music and ... Read more

    € 9,29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape

    Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Netherlands

    by Pooyan Tamimi Arab

    series Islam of the Global West
    Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam – the construction of mosques or the veiling of Muslim women. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is the first book to add a sonic dimension to analyses of the politics of Islamic aesthetics in Europe.Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, ... Read more

    € 30,07

  • Sonic Rupture

    A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design

    by Dr Jordan Lacey

    Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities. This presents an alternative to those urban soundscape design approaches concerned with managing the negative health impacts of noise. Instead, urban noise is considered to be a creative material and cultural expression that can be reshaped with ... Read more

    € 31,82

  • Radio and the Gendered Soundscape

    Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930–1950

    by Christine Ehrick

    This book is a history of women, radio, and the gendered constructions of voice and sound in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Through the stories of five women and one radio station, this study makes a substantial theoretical contribution to the study of gender, mass media, and political culture and expands our knowledge of these issues beyond the US and Western Europe. Included ... Read more

    € 16,99

  • Soundscape Ecology

    Principles, Patterns, Methods and Applications

    by Almo Farina

    Soundscape Ecology represents a new branch of ecology and it is the result of the integration of different disciplines like Landscape ecology, Bioacoustics, Acoustic ecology, Biosemiotics, etc. The soundscape that is the object of this discipline, is defined as the acoustic context resulting from natural and human originated sounds and it is considered a relevant environmental proxy for animal and ... Read more

    € 117,71

  • The Ethical Soundscape

    Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics

    by Charles Hirschkind

    series Cultures of History
    Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form-the cassette sermon-has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind ... Read more

    € 17,43

  • Static in the System

    Noise and the Soundscape of American Cinema Culture

    by Dr. Meredith C. Ward

    series California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media #1
    In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C. Ward shows how aurality can reveal important fissures in American motion picture history, enabling certain types of listening cultures to form across time. Connecting this history of noise in the cinema to a greater sonic culture, Static in the System shows how cinema sound was networked into a broader constellation of factors ... Read more

    € 26,69

  • Siting Michelangelo : Spectatorship, Site Specificity and Soundscape

    by Peter Gillgren

    Michelangelos storhet som konstnär ligger inte bara i hans strävan efter fullkomlighet och skönhet, utan även i hans unika sätt att närma sig den konstnärliga processen och platsens betydelse.Michelangelos fresker i Sixtinska kapellet, skulpturer i Medicikapellet och andra monument bör alla förstås som dramatiserande tillskott till miljöerna de placerades i. Istället för att anpassas och smälta in ... Read more

    € 16,95

  • Flowing Tides

    History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape

    by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin

    Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music ... Read more

    € 46,10

  • The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape

    by Ben De Bruyn

    series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
    The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters. As this book shows, writers in a range of subgenres have devoted considerable attention to the voices of nonhuman animals, and to the histories and technologies of listening that shape twenty-first-century cultures and environments. In doing so, their multispecies novels illuminate ... Read more

    € 68,66