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Zusatztext Michael Bull takes us a seductive journey through sound. With sirens! Bull has found the perfect auditory subject to weave a fascinating tale through myth! war! revolution and gender politics which he travels via history! continents and disciplines. In Sirens ! yet again! Bull shows himself as consummate master of the sonic arts. Informationen zum Autor Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. His many authored books include Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience (Routledge, 2007). He is editor of the Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (2018) and The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2003, and 2016), and co-editor of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is a founding editor of the journals, The Senses and Society and Sound Studies . Klappentext 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 sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.From the seductive danger of the Sirens in Greek myth to the protective/warning sounds of sirens in the 20th century, this book investigates the paradoxical and complex meaning of sirens in Western culture. Zusammenfassung 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 sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Siren Beginnings Sounding Out the Sirens Siren Traces 1. Prolegomena to the Sirens 2. Eclipsing the Acousmatic: The Story of the Sirens 3. Sonic Sleepwalkers: Sirens Myths from Homer, to Bach, to Nancy Sinatra 4. Remembering the Forgotten Sounds of Air-Raid Sirens: Charlie Hebdo , Dresden and Beyond 5. Urban Sirens: 9/11, Dizzee Rascal and Varese 6. Timing the Sirens: Kurt Vonnegut Meets Theodor Adorno 7. Siren Spaces: A Different Colonization? 8. Hearing the Sirens: A Tale of Sonic Exclusivity? 9. Sirens for the Young: From Fénelon to Disney 10. Kafka’s Sirens and the Story of Silencing 11. Sonic Aftermath...
