Ubiquitous Musics : The Everyday Sounds That We Don't Always Notice
Marta García. Quiñones
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (229 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; General Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Ubiquitous Musics Listener; Part I Histories; 1 Caliban's Ear: A Short History of Ambient Music; 2 Early Mood Music: Edison's Phonography, American Modernity and the Instrumentalization of Listening; 3 Radio Symphonies: The BBC, Everyday Listening and the Popular Classics Debate during the People's War; Part II Technologies; 4 Sound, Perception and Mobile Phones in India; 5 Seen and Heard: Visible Playback Technology in Film. - 6 Body and Context in Mobile Listening to Digital PlayersPart III Spaces; 7 The Non-aggressive Music Deterrent; 8 An Anthropology of Soundtracks in Gym Centres; 9 Taboo Listening (or, What Kind of Attention?); Bibliography; Index. - Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from (sometimes involuntary) listeners. The contributors present different theoretical perspectives on the increasing ubiquity of music and its implications for the experience of listening.
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| ISBN | 9781409451334
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