Music, Sound and Space: Transformations Of Public And Private Experience - Softcover

Born, Georgina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107504120 ISBN 13: 9781107504127

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the controversial use of sound as an instrument of torture. In this book, leading scholars explore the spatialisation of music and sound, their capacity to engender modes of public and private, their constitution of subjectivity and the politics of sound and space. Chapters discuss music and sound within specific settings, including sound installation art, popular music recordings, offices and hospitals, and music therapy. With international examples, from the Islamic soundscape of the Kenyan coast, to religious music in Europe, to First Nation musical sociability in Canada, this book offers a new global perspective on how music, sound and space transform the nature of public and private experience.

About this title

Book Description:

Music, Sound, and Space is the first collection to examine the interrelations between music, sound and space as they transform the nature of public and private experience. It will appeal to readers from musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, sociology of music, sound studies, geography, music technology and sonic arts.

About the Author:

Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Formerly Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at the University of Cambridge, she is currently directing the international research programme 'Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies', funded by The European Research Council. Her publications include Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (1995), Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music (edited with D. Hesmondhalgh, 2000), Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2005) and the forthcoming Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences (edited with A. Barry).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107504120
• ISBN 13: 9781107504127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376