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  • Sound Works

    A Cultural Theory of Sound Design

    What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Repetition, Recurrence, Returns

    How Cultural Renewal Works

    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a ... Read more

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  • The Sonic Persona

    An Anthropology of Sound

    In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Sonic Fiction

    Series series The Study of Sound
    Sonic fiction is everywhere: in conversations about vernacular culture, in music videos, sound art compositions and on record sleeves, in everyday encounters with sonic experiences and in every single piece of writing about sound. Where one can find sounds one will also detect bits of fiction.In 1998 music critic, DJ and video essayist Kodwo Eshun proposed this concept in his book “More Brilliant ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound

    Edited by Professor Holger Schulze ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound presents the key subjects and approaches of anthropological research into sound cultures. What are the common characteristics as well as the inconsistencies of living with and around sound in everyday life? This question drives research in this interdisciplinary area of sound studies: it propels each main chapter of this handbook into a ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound.Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Sound as Popular Culture

    A Research Companion

    Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way. From an infant's gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

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  • Theorizing Visual Studies

    Writing Through the Discipline

    This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

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  • V01CE

    Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media

    Series series Leonardo
    Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between ... Read more

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  • Relive

    Media Art Histories

    Edited by Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas ...
    Series series Leonardo
    Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Futures and Fictions

    Futures and Fictions is a book of essays and conversations that explore possibilities for a different ‘political imaginary’ or, more simply, the imagining and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of our neoliberal present.In particular, the book contributes to prescient discussions around decolonization, post-capitalism and new kinds of social ... Read more

    $8.99 USD