Sonic modernity : representing sound in literature, culture and the arts

✍ Scribed by Halliday, Sam

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reveals the many roles and forms of sound in modernism. Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Figures discussed include canonical writers such as Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf; relatively neglected writers such as Henry Roth and Bryher; and a whole host of musicians, artists, and other commentators, including Wagner, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Adorno, and Benjamin. Conceptually as well as topically diverse, the book engages issues such as city noise and 'foreign' accents, representations of sound in 'silent' cinema, the relationship of music to language, and the effects of technology on sonic production and reception

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction : the sonic cultures of modernity --
Theorising sound and hearing --
Sound and social life --
Seeing sound --
Modernising music --
The art of listening.

✦ Subjects

Sound in mass media. Sound -- Social aspects. Sound in literature. Sound in motion pictures. Sound in art. Musik. Klang. Literatur. Künste. Moderne.