Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
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Sense existències ara
Rep-lo a casa en una setmana per Missatger o Eco Enviament*Sobre el libro Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity de publicado por Berg Editions en 2005:
Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare´s time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears? Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, defines experience. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
