Bruce Johnson

Earshot (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Sound

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the decisive role that sound has played in history and culture with the primary focus being the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the medieval period to the contemporary world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000867428
• Artikelnr.: 67425337

Autorenporträt

Bruce Johnson was formerly a professor of English, and now holds honorary professorships in a range of disciplines including Music, Cultural History and Communications at Glasgow, Turku and University of Technology Sydney. Co-founder of Finland's International Institute for Popular Culture, his academic publications number several hundred, including over a dozen books, mainly on jazz, sound studies and film music. He has also acted as a government advisor on arts policy and is an active jazz musician.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acoustemology: Listening to Cultural History 2. Sound in Cultural
History 3. From Hearing to Seeing 4. The Pulpit and the Playhouse 5. Hamlet
- The world is out of joint 6. Print triumphant 7. The Aural Renaissance 8.
The Aural Renaissance and Cultural Change 9. Sound in the contemporary
world 10. The modern soundscape, social welfare and policy