Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity.
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'.
The impact of critiques of “visualism” advanced by Walter Ong and other scholars of orality on the then emergent interpretive anthropology, he suggests, has made us aware of the need for a “cultural poetics that is an interplay of voices, of positioned utterances” (1986: 12). In such a poetics, he claims.
Book. Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound.
The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
Hearing cultures: essays on sound, listening and modernity MPS-Authors Erlmann, Veit External, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society; External Ressource No external resources are shared. Fulltext (public) There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe.
Hearing is the aural reception of the words and sounds we have heard. Listening however, requires concentration so one can process and give meaning to what has been heard. Listening allows the receiver to understand and interpret the message that has been received.
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Hearing cultures: essays on sound, listening, and modernity Chapter Nine: Thinking About Sound, Proximity and Distance in Western Experience: The Case of Odysseus's Walkman by Michael Bull Add to My Bookmarks Export citation.
Literally speaking, the word silence comes from the Latin word silens meaning to be still, quiet, or at rest. In English, it still maintains some of these meaning as most modern dictionaries define silence as the condition or quality of being or keeping still and silent, the absence of sounds.
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology.
Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears?
Hearing cultures: essays on sound, listening, and modernity. (Veit Erlmann; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.;) -- Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination.
