Sensing Sound - Singing and Listening As Vibrational Practice

Informationen zum Autor Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations  viii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 1. Music's Material Dependency: What Underwater Opera Can Tell Us about Odysseus's Ears  27 2. The Acoustic Mediation of Voice, Self, and Others  58 3. Music as Action: Singing Happens before Sound  95 4. All Voice, All Ears: From the Figure of Sound to the Practice of Music  132 5. Music as a Vibrational Practice: Singing and Listening as Everything and Nothing  154 Notes  187 Bibliography  241 Index  261

Product details

• Authors: Nina Sun Eidsheim
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780822360469
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6046-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission; Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Instrument lessons