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From the winds of Mars to a baby's first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life. Experiencing Sound presents its subject as fundamental to all experience—sensation, perception, and understanding. Lawrence Kramer turns on its head the widespread notion that vision takes pride of place among the senses and demonstrates how paying attention to sound can transform how we make meaning out of experience. Through a series of brief, lyrical forays, Kramer shows that sound, whether heard or unheard, is the object of a primary need and an essential component in the sensation of being alive and the perception of time. It is something that we may suffer—or be made to suffer—as well as enjoy. Like its predecessor The Hum of the World, this book ranges widely across music, philosophy, literature, art, media, and history, from classical antiquity to the present, as it invites us to experience sound anew.

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Author:   Lawrence Kramer
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520400849

ISBN 10:   0520400844
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   03 September 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface  Introduction  1. June 24, 2019: The Wind on Mars  2. Listening for the Llamas  3. Auditory Epiphanies  4. Sound and World  5. Listening to Silence  6. Calm Sea: Going Nowhere, Hearing Nothing  7. Prisons of Silence  8. Just One Sound  9. Song and Sound  10. Already Music  11. Coming Alive  12. The Vocal Telegraph  13. The Ravished Ear  14. Campaniles  15. Cannonades  16. Soundless Hearing  17. The Talking Dead  18. From Sounds to Sound  19. Fictitious Sounds  20. Bells  21. Dis/Embodiment  22. Threads  23. Playback  24. Shorthand  25. Poems to Music  26. Grooves  27. Grooves II: Spacing  28. Beyond Analogy  29. Phonogram and Gramophone  30. Forest Murmurs  31. Epithet  32. Mesmerizing Sound  33. Cathay  34. Night. A Street. No Lamps.  35. The Resonating Cure  36. The Voice of Language  37. Nocturne. Another City.  38. Annals of Slavery: A Violin  39. The Grammar of Uncertainty  40. Aftersounds 41. Persistence of Hearing  42. Annals of Slavery II: A Vigil  43. A Voice in a Box  44. The Contralto Mystique: Intercession  45. The Contralto Mystique II: Departure  46. Two Lynchings  47. “White Christmas”: Saigon, 1975  48. The Ghetto: New York, 1904  49. Testimony  50. Voice  51. Inner Speech  52. The Deafness of Narcissus  53. Sound in the Making  54. Housewarming  55. Language Dead or Alive  56. Hearing Plato’s Cave  57. Speaking and Being  58. Minding the Senses  59. LP: Longplayer  60. Harmonies of the World  61. Uneven Measures  62. Sound, Finitude, Music  63. The Shards of the Infinite  64. A Passing Synthesis  65. Aeolian Visitations  66. Harmonizing  Notes  Index 

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Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He is the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, The Hum of the World, and Music and the Forms of Life. He is also an award-winning composer whose works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe.

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