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Hearing cultures : essays on sound, listening, and modernity / edited by Veit Erlmann.

Secondary Author Erlmann, Veit Language Inglês. Edition English ed. Publication Oxford : Berg, 2004.
Description ix, 239 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 97818597382873 Contents note But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.1 But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson. Collection Wenner-Gren international series. Subjects Comunicação e etnologia, etnomusicologia
Antropologia
Sounds. Som. Audição. Mordernidade
Social aspects. Aspectos sociais
Music. Música
Intercultural communication. Comunicação intercultural
Etnomusicologia
Comunicação
Etnologia
Som
Audição
Escuta
Modernidade
Antropologia
Tecnologia
Espaço
Espaço urbano
Espaço pessoal
Cultura
Comunidade
Globalização
Acústica
Ecologia acústica
Wenner-Gren Symposium
CBC GN307.5 Online Resources Contributor biographical information
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Papers presented at the 2002 Wenner-Gren Symposium, held in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-229) and index.

But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.1, But what of the ethnographic ear? : anthropology, sound and the senses / Veit Erlmann -- Listening to the wild blue yonder : the challenges of acoustic ecology / Bruce R. Smith -- Ambiguous traces, mishearing, and auditory space / Paul Carter -- Language and nature in sound alignment / Janis B. Nuckolls -- Raising spirits and restoring souls : early modern medical explanations for music's effects / Penelope Gouk -- Ether ore : mining vibrations in American modernist music / Douglas Kahn -- Hearing modernity : Egypt, Islam, and the pious ear / Charles Hirschkind -- Edison's teeth : touching hearing / Steven Connor -- Thinking about sound, proximity, and distance in Western experience : the case of Odysseus's Walkman / Michael Bull -- Wiring the world : acoustical engineers and the empire of sound in the motion picture industry, 1927-1930 / Emily Thompson.

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