Music, Sound and Space

Transformations of Public and Private Experience

Georgina Born

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780521764247
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107302136
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Music, Sound and Space
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Music examples
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction – music, sound and space: transformations of public and private experience
• Part I The design of mediated music and sound
• 2 Sound installation art: from spatial poetics to politics, aesthetics to ethics
• 3 Music, space and subjectivity
• 4 What the mind’s ear doesn’t hear
• 5 Tuning the human race: athletic capitalism and the Nike+ Sport Kit
• Part II Space, sound and affect in everyday lifeworlds
• 6 Music and the construction of space in office-based work settings
• 7 Broadcasting the body: the ‘private’ made ‘public’ in hospital soundscapes
• 8 Islam, sound and space: acoustemology and Muslim citizenship on the Kenyan coast
• Part III Music, identity, alterity and the politics of space
• 9 Music inside out: sounding public religion in a post-secular Europe
• 10 Classical music and the politics of space
• 11 Civil twilight: country music, alcohol and the spaces of Manitoban aboriginal sociability
• Part IV Music and sound: torture, healing and love
• 12 Music space as healing space: community music therapy and the negotiation of identity in a mental health centre
• 13 Towards an acoustemology of detention in the ‘global war on terror’
• 14 Faith, hope, and the hope of love: on the fidelity of the phonographic voice
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index