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Acoustemologies in contact : sounding subjects and modes of listening in earl…
In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people. Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound, and subjectivity in global early modernity, these authors s…
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- 9781800640375
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- 348p.: col.,ill.
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- 534 WIL a
The sounds of English theory and practice for latin American speakers
do you speak English? Most people ask this question when they want to know whether you can communicate in this language. By doing it they evince the widespread tendency to equate our ability to speak with our overall communicative competence. Paradoxically, for most EFL and ESL learners, speaking is the most challenging skill and the last they get to develop to the full. Latin American students…
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- 9789588943534
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- 103 p.
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- 421.55 OLA t
Soundings : documentary film and the listening experience
This book draws on the lived experience of sound’s capacity to move and shake us in direct, subtle and profound ways through speech, location sound, and music in documentary film. The associative, connotative and sheer emotive power of sound has the capacity to move and shake us in a myriad of direct, subtle and often profound ways. The implications of this for its role as speech, location so…
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- 9781862181540
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- 298 p.
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- 070.18 SOU s
Understanding acoustics : an experimentalist's view of acoustics and vibration
This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly …
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- 2n edition
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- 9783030447878
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- xliii, 783p. : ill.
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- 620.21 GAR u
Soundscapes of the urban past: staged sound as mediated cultural heritage
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such a…
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- 9783837621792
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- 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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- Sound studies ; v. 5
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- 781 SOU s
Bytes and backbeats : repurposing music in the digital age
From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation an…
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- 9780472901180
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- xv, 251p. : ill.
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- 781.6409051 SAV b
Digital sound studies
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences…
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- 9780822371991
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- xii, 298p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
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