Experiencing Sound

The Sensation of Being
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-40084-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kramer, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.