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The Oxford handbook of sound studies
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
c2012
Language
English
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From the Book
The garden in the machine: listening to early American industrialization / Mark M. Smith
Turning a deaf ear? Industrial noise and noise control in Germany since the 1920s / Hans-Joachim Braun
"Sobbing, whining, rumbling": listening to automobiles as social practice / Stefan Krebs
Selling sound: testing, designing, and marketing sound in the European car industry / Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld
Sound sterile: making scientific field recordings in ornithology / Joeri Bruyninckx
Underwater music: tuning composition to the sounds of science / Stefan Helmreich
A gray box: the phonograph in laboratory experiments and fieldwork, 1900-1920 / Julia Kursell
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, the metronome, and the siren / Myles W. Jackson
Conversions: sound and sight, military and civilian / Cyrus C. M. Mody
The search for the "killer application": drawing the boundaries around the sonification of scientific data / Alexandra Supper
Inner and outer sancta: earplugs and hospitals / Hillel Schwartz
Sounding bodies: medical students and the acquisition of stethoscopic perspectives / Tom Rice
Do signals have politics? Inscribing abilities in cochlear implants / Mara Mills
Sound and player immersion in digital games / Mark Grimshaw
The sonic playpen: sound design and technology in Pixar's animated shorts / William Whittington
The avant-garde in the family room: American advertising and the domestication of electronic music in the 1960s and 1970s / Timothy D. Taylor
Visibly audible: the radio dial as mediating interface / Andreas Fickers
From listening to distribution: nonofficial music practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s / Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora
The amateur in the age of mechanical music / Mark Katz
Online music sites as sonic sociotechnical communities: identity, reputation, and technology at ACIDplanet.com / Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades
Analog turns digital: hip-hop, technology, and the maintenance of racial authenticity / Rayvon Fouché
iPod culture: the toxic pleasures of audiotopia / Michael Bull
The recording that never wanted to be heard and other stories of sonification / Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama.
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9780195388947
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