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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition

Name: Acoustic Territories, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781501336218

Sound Culture and Everyday Life

Brandon LaBelle,

248 pages
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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition

Sound Culture and Everyday Life

Brandon LaBelle,

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The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. 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. 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. 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 of transmitted imaginaries. The new edition includes an additional "global territory" of the relational, positioning acoustics as a range of everyday practices that rework dominant tonalities. Questions of orientation and emplacement are critically raised, reframing listening as multi-modal and intrinsic to resistant socialities and what the author terms "acts of compositioning." The book is fully updated to include new relevant research and references surfacing since 2010, as well as a new preface to the second edition. Acoustic Territories continues to uncover the embedded tensions and potentialities inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.

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CHAPTER 

ONE

Underground:

Busking, 

Acousmatics, 

and

the

Echo

And

the

public 

wants 

what 

the

public 

gets

But

I

don’t 

get

what 

this 

society 

wants

I’m 

going 

underground, 

(going 

underground)

Well, 

let

the

brass 

bands 

play 

and

feet 

start 

to

pound

Going 

underground, 

(going 

underground)

[so] 

let

the

boys 

all

sing 

and

the

boys 

all

shout 

for

tomorrow

—THE 

JAM

It

was

also 

noticed 

that 

the

experience 

of

living 

underground 

encouraged 

an

anti-authoritarian 

and

egalitarian 

spirit, 

as

if

the

conditions 

above 

ground 

could 

be

reversed 

.

.

.

So

those 

under 

the

ground 

instilled 

an

element 

of

fear 

in

those 

who

remained 

above 

it

.

.

.

it

is

the

fear 

of

the

depths.

1

—PETER 

ACKROYD

To

enter 

this 

topography 

of

auditory 

life, 

I

start 

below, 

within 

the

underground, 

which 

is

also 

immediately 

a

set

of

images: 

underground 

passages, 

caves 

and

tunnels, 

the

subway, 

subterranean 

creatures 

or

nocturnal 

monsters, 

covert 

operations 

and

secret 

clubs, 

the

underground 

as

hold-out 

against 

political 

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: Your Sound Is My Sound Is Your Sound
Chapter 1: Underground: Busking, Acousmatics, and the Echo
Chapter 2: Home: Ethical Volumes of Silence and Noise
Chapter 3: Sidewalk: Steps, Gait, and Rhythmic Journey-Forms
Chapter 4: Street: Auditory Latching, Cars, and the Dynamics of Vibration
Chapter 5: Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of Feedback
Chapter 6: Sky: Radio, Spatial Urbanism, and Cultures of Transmission
Epilogue: Queer Listening, Acoustic Justice, and Acts of Compositioning
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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