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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner Gren International Symposium Series)

By Veit Erlmann

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1859738230, 9781859738238
Open Library ID
OL22376066M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1385069 bytes)
Pages
256\250
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears? Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, defines experience. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.

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