Just Beyond Listening

Essays of Sonic Encounter

Michael C. Heller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520350779 (ISBN)

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Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.

Michael C. Heller is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s and founding editor of the journal Jazz and Culture.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART I: LOUDNESS AND SILENCE
1. Between Silence and Pain: Loudness and the Affective Encounter
2. Let’s Listen to Nothing: Silence and the Anechoic Chamber
3. Silencing and Alternative Silences

PART II: TEXTUAL INTERFERENCE
4. Projecting Results: Opera Supertitles and the People Who Hated Them
5. Diaries and Postcards: Archival Privilege, Empathy, and Intimacy

PART III: DEATH AND DEADNESS
6. Deploying Deadness in Louis Armstrong’s House
7. Tape Death: Mourning Sounds We Never Heard

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media ; 5
Zusatzinfo	21 b-w illustrations, 1 table
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-13	9780520350779 / 9780520350779
Zustand	Neuware