Sensing Sound (Paperback)

Nina Sun Eidsheim

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2015

0822360616 / 9780822360612

Series: Book 7 of 20 - Sign, Storage, Transmission

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Paperback. In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound-such as air being the default medium through which it travels-and to demonstrate the importance a performance's location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the notion of an a priori definition of sound, Eidsheim releases the voice from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. In Eidsheim's theory, music consists of aural, tactile, spatial, physical, material, and vibrational sensations. This expanded definition of music as manifested through material and personal relations suggests that we are all connected to each other in and through sound. Sensing Sound will appeal to readers interested in sound studies, new musicology, contemporary opera, and performance studies. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Sensing Sound (Paperback)
Author
Nina Sun Eidsheim
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2015
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822360616
ISBN 13
9780822360612
Series
Book 7 of 20: Sign, Storage, Transmission

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