Series | Book
Sound, media, ecology
Abstract
This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary framework from the 1970s for documenting, analyzing, and transforming sonic environments: an early model of the cross-boundary thinking and multi-modal practices now common across the digital humanities. With the recent emergence of sound studies and the expansion of “ecological” thinking, there is an increased urgency to re-discover and contemporize the acoustic ecology tradition. This book serves as a comprehensive investigation into the ways in which current scholars working with sound are re-inventing acoustic ecology across diverse fields, drawing on acoustic ecology’s focus on sensory experience, place, and applied research, as well as attendance to mediatized practices in sounded space. From sounding out the Anthropocene, to rethinking our auditory media landscapes, to exploring citizenship and community, this volume brings the original acoustic ecology problem set into the contemporary landscape of sound studies.
Details | Table of Contents
introduction in three acts
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_1pp.21-44
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_2today, yesterday, tomorrow
pp.45-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_3Raymond Murray Schafer's contribution to the history and present-day practice of noise abatement
pp.65-84
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_4toward a different media-theoretical legacy
pp.85-109
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_5examining the acoustic community
pp.131-151
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_7listening to changing ecosystems
pp.153-177
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_8rethinking technics, memory, and sound
pp.199-216
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_10negotiating cities of sirens, smartphones and sensors
pp.217-231
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_11auditory cultures in radio call-in programmes
pp.261-284
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7_14Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2019
Pages: 294
Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-030-16568-0
ISBN (digital): 978-3-030-16569-7
Full citation:
Droumeva Milena, Jordan Randolph (2019) Sound, media, ecology. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.