Sirens
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds - from the US Cold War public training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5013-0501-6
- EAN: 9781501305016
- Produktnummer: 33292472
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'054 KB
Über den Autor
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is series editor of the Study of Sound series with Bloomsbury and author of the book in the series, Sirens (2020). He is a founding editor of The Senses and Society Journal and The Sound Studies Journal, and founding member of the European Sound Studies Association. He is author of numerous academic books including The Auditory Culture Reader 2/e (Bloomsbury 2015), Sound Moves (2007), Sounding Out the City (Bloomsbury 2000) and editor of the Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2017).
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