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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition By Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition by Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)


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Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)

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.

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition Reviews

[An] important text for anyone involved in any form of sound studies. * The Wire (joint-reviewed with Sound Art Revisited) *
LaBelle, a sound artist and an academic, writes with a fluid brilliance about the way that sound interacts with the other elements of our experience with a kind of comprehension and comprehensiveness that can suggest Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media or Siegfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command, resulting in a visionary tome linking history, subcultures and street art. It's not a book about music per se, but it's hard to imagine a reading of it not interacting creatively with anyone's thinking on musical practice and meaning. LaBelle has a kind of accepting overview that I can't help admiring. It's too easy to simply decry noise pollution or the behavioural engineering of public space without actually exploring what a specific event might mean (e.g., how sound is wrapped up in identity and issues of private and public space), but LaBelle has the ability to keep thinking where many others would just react. It's an ability that makes this one of the more stimulating reads of the year. * Point of Departure *
Acoustic Territories takes account of contemporary urban space by listening to it ... From the underground to the sky, this groundbreaking book explores the sonorities of everyday life, identifies the major stakes and challenges, and leads us brilliantly towards an auditory paradigm of urban experience. -- Jean-Paul Thibaud, CNRS researcher at CRESSON, scientific coordinator of the International Ambiances Network (ambiances.net)
LaBelle argues that everyday acoustic life has an unbounded, yet highly differentiated, nature which offers new interdisciplinary modes of thinking to contemporary questions of global inhabitation, relation and disruption. In doing so, he makes a valuable contribution to the expanding field of sonic research. -- Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London

About Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)

Brandon LaBelle is Professor of New Media at The Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway, as well as an artist and writer working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. His books Background Noise, Second Edition (2015) and Lexicon of the Mouth (2014) are published by Bloomsbury Academic. He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, and an associated Professor at the Autonimia Akadimia, Athens.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 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

Additional information

NGR9781501336195
9781501336195
1501336193
Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life by Brandon LaBelle (Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway)
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2019-10-17
248
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