Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2013· Book chapter
Music, Sound and Space
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Short summary
This book is the first to integrate musicology and sound studies research on how music and sound mediate everyday life, exploring their spatialization, influence on public/private experience, subjectivity, and politics.
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Key points
- Integrates musicology and sound studies research on music and sound's mediation of everyday life.
- Explores the spatialization of music and sound and their capacity to engender publicness and privacy.
- Examines the constitution of subjectivity and the politics of sound and space.
- Features international examples across genres, technologies, and settings, including sound installation art, popular music, offices, hospitals, and music therapy.
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Abstract
Music, Sound and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the controversial use of sound as an instrument of torture. In this book, leading scholars explore the spatialisation of music and sound, their capacity to engender modes of publicness and privacy, their constitution of subjectivity, and the politics of sound and space. Chapters discuss music and sound in relation to distinctive genres, technologies and settings, including sound installation art, popular music recordings, offices and hospitals, and music therapy. With international examples, from the Islamic soundscape of the Kenyan coast, to religious music in Europe, to First Nation musical sociability in Canada, this book offers a new global perspective on how music and sound and their spatialising capacities transform the nature of public and private experience.
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