ABSTRACT
The first edition of The Auditory Culture Reader offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research on sound thrives across disciplines such as music, anthropology, geography, sociology and cultural studies as well as within the new interdisciplinary sphere of sound studies itself. This second edition reflects on the changes to the field since the first edition and offers a vast amount of new content, a user-friendly organization which highlights key themes and concepts, and a methodologies section which addresses practical questions for students setting out on auditory explorations. All essays are accessible to non-experts and encompass scholarship from leading figures in the field, discussing issues relating to sound and listening from the broadest set of interdisciplinary perspectives. Inspiring students and researchers attentive to sound in their work, newly-commissioned and classical excerpts bring urban research and ethnography alive with sensory case studies that open up a world beyond the visual. This book is core reading for all courses that cover the role of sound in culture, within sound studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history, media studies and urban geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|113 pages
Sound Engagements
part II|50 pages
Sound Methodologies
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Hearing Urban Regeneration: Community Composition as a Tool for Capturing Change
chapter Chapter 13|12 pages
Walking Through the Woodlands: Learning to Listen with Companions Who Have Impaired Vision
part III|63 pages
Spaces of Sound
chapter Chapter 17|12 pages
Memories of Sound: Socioeconomic, Community and Cultural Soundscapes of Smithfield, Dublin from the 1950S
part IV|69 pages
Conflicting Sounds
chapter Chapter 22|15 pages
Unruly Voices in the Museum: Multisensory Engagement with Disquieting Histories
chapter Chapter 23|10 pages
‘A Few Feet of Film Run Backwards’: Tracing the Sonic Construction of Shellfire, 1914-30
chapter Chapter 24|15 pages
War, Cognition and the Media: Training the Senses in a Fully Mediated World
part V|89 pages
Music, Technologies and Materialities
chapter Chapter 25|11 pages
Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic
chapter Chapter 28|7 pages
Auditory and Technological Culture: The Fine-Tuning of the Dancehall Sound System ‘Set’
chapter Chapter 32|12 pages
Going After the Kids: Music and the ‘Extreme’ of Christian Fundamentalism
part VI|49 pages
Economic Sounds