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Author Schulze, Holger, author.

Title The sonic persona : an anthropology of sound / Holger Schulze
Published New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Contents Quantifying sound -- Materializing listening -- Corporealizing the senses -- In auditory dispositives -- The sonic persona -- A sensory corpus -- The precision of sensibility -- Resistance and resonance -- Generativity
Summary Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences. From Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts - and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening. This anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2018)
Subject Sound.
Communication in anthropology.
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects
Theory of music & musicology.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Music: styles & genres.
SCIENCE -- Acoustics & Sound.
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects
Communication in anthropology
Sound
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501305481
1501305484
9781501305474
1501305476
Other Titles Anthropology of sound