Picturing Sound and Sounding History
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Description
What do we see in sound? Picturing Sound and Sounding History focuses on the important intersection between sight and the way visual items such as as paintings, drawings, and diagrams stimulate our auditory imagination. Though, as Marcel Duchamp says, “one can look at seeing, one can't hear hearing”, the media and mechanisms for sound making – its propagation, transmission, recording and reception – are clearly visible. This book explores the relationships between sound, sight and image chronologically, in a variety of historical contexts across the arts and sciences. With reference to the phenomenon of synesthesia, it examines the way sights and sounds affect us physically, socially and emotionally, and highlights the important role that sound and sound-making have had historically from pre-history to the present.
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The publication contains no hazards
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Table of Contents
1. Beginnings
2. Prehistory
3. Ancients
4. Arabic Spring
5. Celts and Romans
6. Middle Ages
7. Renaissance
8. Enlightenment
9. First Industrial Revolution
10. Modernism and War
11. Second Industrial Revolution
12. Future Sounds
Index
Product details
| Published | 21 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781501335365 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 color and 20 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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