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... tracks the history of the word transduction in acoustics as well as, more recently, in the field of sound studies. It contrasts “transduction” to “immersion,” which is often employed to describe a putatively unmediated experience of sound. Arguing that the material mediation of sound—and vibration...

... migrant laborers caught up in the politics of ethnic nationalism of the late apartheid era and in the stresses of a diminishing labor market. While the ngoma body-voice summarizes this history of work, it is not only about commentary. Sensory immersion in the experience of performing offers...

... Hall explores the concepts of creole and creolization, recounting the time shortly after he arrived in Britain when he immersed himself in the contending interpretations of the formation of post-enslaved cultures that had developed in Caribbean culture. He returns to “the African survival vs...

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... of the city by the 1950s. Although immersed in the peripheral pattern of urban growth dominant in São Paulo during this period, São Miguel was different from other suburbs that were widely considered to be bedroom communities. This chapter explores how the presence of a large industrial company employing most...

...From Independence to the War of the Pacific (1821–1883) Independence from Spain in the 1820s meant that Lima lost its role as the main urban center of South America and became immersed in the political turmoil of the period. The texts in this section highlight changes in Lima...

... discotheque Studio 54. But as the backlash against disco gathered pace during 1979 and as punks grew weary of the anti-dance outlook of pioneering venues such as CBGB, the Mudd Club became a place where the opposition between disco and punk collapsed. With Mass integrating live music, DJ-ing, immersive...

... The epilogue brings the reader up-to-date with the VR industry. It discusses Facebook’s rebranding of Meta and its launch of the metaverse as well as Apple’s announced Vision Pro headset and its framing of immersive technology as spatial computing. These Big Tech maneuvers place VR in a larger...

... people interact in them, where everyone moves freely as long as their interests and ideas can be tagged and mined as data. This chapter ends with analyses of Bodies . . . the Exhibition and Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. social media Downtown Project immersive experience augmented space...

... Chapter 4 narrates the history of VR, explaining how it shifted from a technology that, in the 1980s and 1990s, promised freedom from one’s body to today’s fantasy of embodying another. Central to this reconceptualization of VR is the work of LA-based immersive journalist Nonny de la Peña, who...

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..., the act of listening to music and feeling the sensations of sound while immersed in water depict the cerebral dimensions of intimacy and interconnectedness, expanding adolescent sexuality beyond the act of touching bodies, in a direct challenge to the hookup culture that defines many young people today...

... spaces reach a level of intensity that knew no historical precedent. Thoughts of convergence also seemed to be hardwired into the psyche of promoters. Even those who were most committed to producing singular, authored works were immersed in the scene’s collective personality. The activity multiplied...