Music, Sound and Space
Transformations of Public and Private Experience

This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.

Georgina Born (Edited by)

9781107504127, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 March 2015

376 pages, 16 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.66 kg

Music, Sound and Space is the first collection to integrate research from musicology and sound studies on music and sound as they mediate everyday life. Music and sound exert an inescapable influence on the contemporary world, from the ubiquity of MP3 players to the controversial use of sound as an instrument of torture. In this book, leading scholars explore the spatialisation of music and sound, their capacity to engender modes of publicness and privacy, their constitution of subjectivity, and the politics of sound and space. Chapters discuss music and sound in relation to distinctive genres, technologies and settings, including sound installation art, popular music recordings, offices and hospitals, and music therapy. With international examples, from the Islamic soundscape of the Kenyan coast, to religious music in Europe, to First Nation musical sociability in Canada, this book offers a new global perspective on how music and sound and their spatialising capacities transform the nature of public and private experience.

1. Introduction - music, sound and space: transformations of public and private experience Georgina Born
Part I. The Design of Mediated Music and Sound: 2. Sound installation art: from spatial poetics to politics, aesthetics to ethics Gascia Ouzounian
3. Music, space and subjectivity Eric F. Clarke
4. What the mind's ear doesn't hear Jonathan Sterne
5. Tuning the human race: athletic capitalism and the Nike+ sport kit Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek
Part II. Space, Sound and Affect in Everyday Lifeworlds: 6. Music and the construction of space in office-based work settings Nicola Dibben and Anneli B. Haake
7. Broadcasting the body: the 'private' made 'public' in hospital soundscapes Tom Rice
8. Islam, sound, and space: acoustemology and Muslim citizenship on the Kenyan coast Andrew J. Eisenberg
Part III. Music, Identity, Alterity and the Politics of Space: 9. Music inside out - sounding public religion in a post-secular Europe Philip V. Bohlman
10. Classical music and the politics of space Nicholas Cook
11. Civil twilight: country music, alcohol, and the spaces of Manitoban Aboriginal sociability Byron Dueck
Part IV. Music and Sound: Torture, Healing and Love: 12. Music space as healing space: community music therapy and the negotiation of identity in a mental health centre Tia DeNora
13. Towards an acoustemology of detention in the 'global war on terror' Suzanne G. Cusick
14. Faith, hope, and the hope of love: on the fidelity of the phonographic voice Richard Middleton.

Subject Areas: Electronic music [AVGV], 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6], Music [AV]