Mack Hagood

Hush

Media and Sonic Self-Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mack Hagood outlines how noise-cancelling headphones, tinnitus maskers, white noise machines, nature-sound mobile apps, and other forms of media give users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves, showing how the desire to block certain sounds are informed by ideologies of race, gender, and class.

Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003809
• ISBN-10: 1478003804
• Artikelnr.: 52822949

Autorenporträt

Mack Hagood is Robert H. and Nancy J. Blayney Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Hearing What We Want  1
Part I. Suppression  29
1. Tinnitus and Its Aural Remedies  31
Part II. Masking  73
2. Sleep-Mates and Sound Screens: Sound, Speed, and Circulation in Postwar
America  75
3. The Ultimate Seashore: Environments and the Nature of Technology  116
4. A Quiet Storm: Orphic Apps and Infocentrism  148
Part III. Cancellation  175
5. Bose QuietComfort and the Mobile Production of Personal Space  177
6. Beats by Dre: Race and the Sonic Interface  198
Conclusion. Wanting What We Hear  220
Notes  235
References  245
Index  261