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
Table of contents
- 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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