Soundscapes of the urban past : : staged sound as mediated cultural heritage / / Karin Bijsterveld (editor).
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such »staged sounds« express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sound studies ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Editorial Board 2 Sound Studies 3 Contents 6 Introduction 11 Shifting Sounds 31 Why Historians of the Auditory Urban Past Might Consider Getting Their Ears Wet 67 Sounds Familiar 77 The Chirping of a Little Bird 117 Sonic Artefacts 129 Radio Documentary and the Formation of Urban Aesthetics 169 Soundscape, Landscape, Escape 181 The Corporeality of Listening 195 The Eleventh of the Eleventh of the Eleventh 209 Authors 221 List of Illustrations 227