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Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374824-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
... location of their provenance. There is a tendency to counteract the causal vagueness of many sounds by anchoring them visually. Such spatial magnetization of sounds—linking sound to source via vision—can lead to various distortions in listening. When it comes to analyzing sounds in themselves...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
... architecture of the cold war? This essay listens closely to the musical cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan of the 1960s in order to answer these questions. Jones focuses on the Hong Kong diva Grace Chang and her appropriation of Afro-Caribbean genres, such as mambo and calypso, in a series of high-flying...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374947-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
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By Michel Chion, James A. Steintrager
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374824-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
..., the ways in which sound occupies space, and the shaping of sounds for and by the listener through language and subjectivity, which complicates any attempt to grasp sounds as objective givens. It also returns to R. Murray Schafer’s seminal notions of “soundscapes,” “keynotes,” and “soundmarks,” to consider...
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By Michel Chion, James A. Steintrager
Published: 01 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
...Listening, Expressing This chapter considers two of the key concepts of the seminal sound theorist Pierre Schaeffer: reduced listening and the sound object. The former indicates an effort to listen without attending to the context or causes of what is heard. Its correlate is the sound object...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374824-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 18 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374695-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7469-5
... “Music as a Vibrational Practice: Singing and Listening as Everything and Nothing” uses the case studies and multisensory perspectives offered in the preceding chapters to propose a model for thinking through selfhood and community. In this model, we are sound; we are the music. Like sound...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 18 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374695
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7469-5
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By Gillian Siddall, Ellen Waterman
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
...Listening, Place, and Space This chapter explores listening practices in a soundwalk through consideration of Luce Irigaray’s ideas about intimate and ethical listening. The conceptualization of love as involving listening that is not yet coded but instead is open to the unknown is discussed...
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374497-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
... This chapter explores listening practices in a soundwalk through consideration of Luce Irigaray’s ideas about intimate and ethical listening. The conceptualization of love as involving listening that is not yet coded but instead is open to the unknown is discussed as a valuable theoretical model...
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By David Novak, Tom Rice, Matt Sakakeeny
Published: 01 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375494-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7549-4
... This entry sets out to give a definition of “listening” and explores some of the manifold senses in which the term is used. It goes on to demonstrate the complexity of listening as a sensory activity and outlines key approaches to listening within sound studies, examining some...
Book Chapter

By Barry Shank
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 17 March 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376750-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7675-0
Book Chapter

By Barry Shank
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 17 March 2014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7675-0
Published: 14 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375531-041
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7553-1
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By John Corbett
Published: 14 September 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7553-1
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 17 July 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009337-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0933-7
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021391-130
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2139-1
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021391-132
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2139-1
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021391-163
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2139-1