THE AUDITORY CULTURE READER
Sensory Formations
Series Editor:DavidHowes
What is the world like to cultures that privilege touch or smell over sight or hearing? Do mens and women's sensory experiences differ?
What lies beyond the aesthetic gaze?
Who says money has no smell?
How has the proliferation of taste cultures resulted in new forms of social discrimination?
How is the sixth sense to be defined?
What is the future of the senses in cyberspace?
From the Ancient Greeks to medieval mystics and eighteenth-century empiricists, Karl Marx to Marshall McLuhan, the senses have been the subject of dramatic proclamations. Senses are sources of pleasure and pain, knowledge and power. Sites of intense personal experience, they are also fields of extensive cultural elaboration. Yet surprisingly, it is only recently that scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned their full attention to sensory experience and expression as a subject for inquiry.
This path-breaking series aims to show how the sensual revolution has supplanted both the linguistic and the pictorial turns in the human sciences to generate a new fieldsensual culture, where all manner of disciplines converge. Its objective is to enhance our understanding of the role of the senses in history, culture, and aesthetics, by redressing an imbalance: the hegemony of vision and privileging of discourse in contemporary theory and cultural studies must be overthrown in order to reveal the role all senses play in mediating cultural experience. The extraordinary richness and diversity of the social and material worlds, as constituted through touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight and, provocatively, the sixth sense, are addressed in the volumes of this series as follows:
THE AUDITORY CULTURE READER
Edited byMichaelBullandLesBack
First published 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic
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CONTENTS
- Part I: Sound Engagements
Introduction
This book has a sonic website to accompany and supplement its content. Please go to: www.gold.ac.uk/auditory-cultures for a full list of contents.
- Part I: Sound Engagements
Introduction
Guide
Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, university of London, UK
Julia T. S. Binter is completing her doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies, University of Sussex, UK
Alain Corbin is Professor Emeritus, University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
Suzanne Cusick is Professor of Music, New York University, USA
Frances Dyson is Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies, University of California at Davis, USA
Veit Erlmann is Professor of Music History, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michele Friedner is Assistant Professor Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Disability Studies at Stony Brook University, USA
Paul Gilroy is Professor of American and English Literature, Kings College, London, UK
Louis Goddard is completing his doctorate in the Department of English, University of Sussex, UK
Greg Goodale is Associate Professor, Associate Dean, College of Arts, Media & Design, Northeastern University, USA
Stuart Hall was a Cultural Theorist and Sociologist.
Julian Henriques is Reader in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology. MIT, USA
Elina Hytnen-Ng is a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Dr. des. Carla J. Maier (ne Mller-Schulzke) is a Research Associate, Humbolt University, Germany
Paul Moore is Professor and Head of School of Creative Arts and Technologies, University of Ulster, UK
Douglas Kahn is Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Meri Kyto is a post doctoral researcher in the School of Communication, Media and Theatre, University of Tampere, Finland
Linda O Keeffe is Lecturer in Sound and Image at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Art, UK
Karis Petty is completing her doctorate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK
John Picker is Lecturer in Comparative Media Studies/Writing Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
John Pieslack is Associate Professor. The City College and Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology, Cornell University, USA
Nirmal Puwar is a Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Leigh EricSchmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Max Schneider is an independent scholar.
Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Hillel Schwartz is an independent scholar.
Professor Richard Sennett is Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK
Mark Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina, USA
Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology, McGill University, Canada.
Timothy Taylor is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Paul Theberge is Research Professor in Technological Mediations of Culture.Carlton University, Canada.
Emily Thompson is Professor of History, Princeton University, USA