Annoying Music in Everyday Life
eBook - PDF

Annoying Music in Everyday Life

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Annoying Music in Everyday Life

About this book

Just as music has the power to inspire, it has the power to irritate and enrage. Why does certain music annoy us? Why does it force us to leave rooms, invade our personal space and affect us on a visceral level? Based on more than 70 interviews, this book discusses the everyday challenges of living together with unwanted music. It examines issues of taste, individual rights, private and public spaces, violence and the law. The interviews explore various relationships with forced listening and the behaviors that result. Interviewees talk about emotions and reactions to the nuisance caused by music, highlighting matters of otherness, individualism and rights. They discuss experiences with neighbors, at stores, on the street, while commuting and even in their homes - and reveal the complex social interactions mediated by music and sounds in our day-to-day lives.

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Yes, you can access Annoying Music in Everyday Life by Felipe Trotta in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas & Etnomusicología. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Slippery concepts: Music, sound and noise
  7. Chapter 2: Private individuals and the music from elsewhere
  8. Chapter 3: Sharing spaces and sounds in public and private
  9. Chapter 4: Sound, music and violence
  10. Chapter 5: What music? Tastes, morals and values
  11. Chapter 6: Regarding the sound of the others
  12. Epilogue
  13. References
  14. Index