A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Damousi, Joy; Hamilton, Paula

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sound studies has emerged as a major academic field in recent times. However, much of this material remains ahistorical or focused on technological advances of sound. This book departs from previous studies by drawing out connections between sound, memory and the senses, and how they emerge within a variety of historical contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315445311
• Artikelnr.: 47386556

Autorenporträt

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. Paula Hamilton is adjunct Professor of History at University of Technology, Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Leaning In
[Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton]
1. Sound Studies Today: Where Are We Going?
[Bruce Johnson]
Part I: Sound and Voice
2. "The World Wanderings of a Voice": Exhibiting the Cylinder Phonograph in
Australasia
[Henry Reece]
3. "Are You Sitting Comfortably?": The Changing Position of Storytellers on
Early Australian Radio
[Jennifer Bowen]
4. Lindbergh's Voice
[David Goodman]
5. Noisy Classrooms and the "Quiet Corner": The Modern School, Sound and
the Senses
[Kate Darian-Smith]
Part II: Sound and Violence
6. Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Voice, Power and Sexual Violence in Penal
New South Wales
[Penny Russell]
7. Startling Reports: Gunfire as Social Soundscape in Early Colonial
Australia
[Diane Collins]
8. Sounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris During World War II
[Joy Damousi]
9. Hearing the 1965-66 Indonesian Anti-Communist Repression: Sensory
History and Its Possibilities
[Vannessa Hearman]
10. "For a Few Seconds, Imagine": An Aural Experience of Six Days of Terror
at the Stadium of Chile, 12-17 September 1973
[Peter Read]
Part III: Sensory Memories
11. "Big Smoke Stacks": Competing Memories of the Sounds and Smells of
Industrial Heritage
[Lisa Murray]
12. Intimate Strangers: Multisensorial Memories of Working in the Home
[Paula Hamilton]
13. Botanical Memory: Materiality, Affect, and Western Australian Plant
Life
[John Charles Ryan]
14. "If I Ever Hear It, It Takes Me Straight Back There": Music,
Autobiographical Memory, Space and Place
[Lauren Istvandity]
15. Seeing in Black and White: Visualising "Shadow Sisters" Among Metaphors
of Light and Dark
[Emma Dortins]