Acoustic Territories, Second Edition
Acoustic Territories, Second Edition The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. Combining research on urbanism, popular…
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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition
The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture, street life and sonic technologies, Acoustic Territories opens up a range of critical perspectives--it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an "acoustic politics of space" by engaging auditory experience as found within particular cultural histories and related ideologies. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society.
Brandon LaBelle traces sound culture through a topographic structure: from underground territories to the home, and further, into the rhythms and vibrations of streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself as an arena