The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) - Softcover

Street, Seán

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138699160 ISBN 13: 9781138699168

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the brain is triggered by the memory of programs, songs, and individual sounds. He then examines the growing importance of sound archives, community radio and current research using GPS technology for the history of place, as well as the potential for developing strategies to aid Alzheimer's and dementia patients through audio memory.

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About the Author

Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University. He is author of The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound (Routledge, 2012). He is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 and a poet, with nine published collections. He lives in Liverpool, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138699160
• ISBN 13: 9781138699168
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196