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Sounding Out the City
副标题: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781859733424
出版社: Berg
出版年: 2000
页数: 208
定价: $ 42.88
装帧: Pap
内容简介
On buses, trains, and streets over the past decade and more, youths in particular but increasingly older people as well tune into their personal stereos and tune out city sounds. Why? What does the personal stereo mean to these people and to urban culture more generally? Does it heighten reality? Enable people to cope? Isolate? Create a space? Combat boredom? Far too commonplace and enduring to be considered a fashion accessory, the personal stereo has become a potent artefact symbolizing contemporary urban life. This book opens up a new area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of the role of media and technology in everyday life. Urban, cultural and anthropological studies have been dominated by explanations of experiences drawing upon notions of visuality. But culture always has an auditory component that shapes attitudes and behaviour -- perhaps nowhere more so than in the city where sound is intensified. This book challenges strictly visual approaches to culture by proposing an auditory understanding of behaviour through an ethnographic analysis of personal stereo use. The author reformulates our understanding of how people, through the senses, negotiate central experiences of the urban, such as space, place, time and the management of everyday experience, and examines the critical role technology plays. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking a fresh and incisive approach to urban studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, or media and communication studies.
作者简介
Community & Business
Advisory Board: Portalplayer. California.
Consultant: Sound Strategies. London.
Core member: Future Trends Forum. European think-tank funded by Bankinter. Spain.
Member: Wired Sussex.
Research
Mobile comminication technologies and their use, Music and sound in urban culture. New directions in Critical Theory (The Frankfurt School), sensory experience and methodologies.
He is also the founding and managing edotor of the journal Senses and Society published by Berg.
Teaching
Michael teaches undergraduate courses in: Music and Media, Media, Technology and Everyday Life, Media and Power, MA courses in The Political Economy of the New Media and the core course in Media and Cultural Studies..
目录
preface
vii
1 Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life: an Introduction
1
Notes
13
2 The World of Personal-Stereo Users: an Introduction
17
Notes
26
Part I Personal-Stereo Use and the Management of Space, Place and Time
29
3 Reconfiguring the 'site' and 'horizon' of Experience
31
Notes
41
4 Personal Stereos and the Management of Cognitive Contingency
43
5 The Re-Appropriation of Time in Everyday Life
55
Notes
67
Part II An Ethnography of Auditory Looking, Aesthetics and Interpersonal Urban Relations
69
6 Empowering the 'gaze': Personal Stereos and the Hidden Look
71
7 Filmic Cities and Aesthetic Experience
85
8 The Asymmetrical Urban: the Role of Personal Stereos in Managing Interpersonal Behaviour
97
Part III Personal Steroes and a Critical Theory of Urban Everyday Life
113
9 Sounding out the City: an Auditory Epistemology of Urban Experience
115
Notes
132
10 Visual Theories of City Life and Personal-Stereo Use
135
11 Technology and the Management of Everyday Life
147
Notes
166
12 Aestheticizing Everyday Life: a Critique
171
Notes
183
13 Conclusion
185
Bibliography
197
Index
205
