
Sound Works
A Cultural Theory of Sound Design
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 29 October 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501373732
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 177x254 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 158
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Long description:
What is sound design? What is its function in the early 21st century and into the future?
Sound Works examines these questions in four parts: Part 1, "Why This Sound?", presents an overview of the modern history of sound design. Part 2 is highly visual and provides a glance onto a sound designer's workbench and the current state of "Sonic Labor." Part 3 uses cultural analysis to explore our contemporary "Living with Sounds." The final and fourth part then proposes a series of anthropological and political interpretations of how "Sound Works" today.
This book is not a manual on sound design; it instead argues for a cultural theory of sound design for sound designers and sound artists, for clients who commission a sound design and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research, and cultural studies
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Why That Sound?: Annoyance and Excitement by Design
1. Working
2. Consuming
3. Suffering
4. Joy
Part 2. Sonic Labor: Statements, Situations, and Cases
With illustrations by Julia Krause
5. Location and Apparatus
6. Skills and Habits
7. Conflicts and Heuristics
8. Portfolio and Presentations
Part 3. Living With Sound: The Semiotics and Mediology of Sonic Signs
Written in collaboration with Carla J. Maier
9. Signifying Sounds
10. Situated Signalling
11. Transmitting Sounds
12. Transcultural Aurality
Part 4. Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design
13. The Silencing Dispositive
14. The Economy of Sound
15. The Panacoustic Society
16. The Sonic Capital
References
Index

Sound Works: A Cultural Theory of Sound Design
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