Overview
- Provides a much needed update of acoustic ecology as a coherent problem set applicable to today’s global sound studies research
- Includes a rare set of histories of the World Soundscape Project by prominent scholars in the field
- Offers a collection of interdisciplinary frameworks and methodologies that take up acoustic ecology through a variety of scholarly, environmental, and artistic concerns
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture (PSAVC)
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This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary framework from the 1970s for documenting, analyzing, and transforming sonic environments: an early model of the cross-boundary thinking and multi-modal practices now common across the digital humanities. With the recent emergence of sound studies and the expansion of “ecological” thinking, there is an increased urgency to re-discover and contemporize the acoustic ecology tradition. This book serves as a comprehensive investigation into the ways in which current scholars working with sound are re-inventing acoustic ecology across diverse fields, drawing on acoustic ecology’s focus on sensory experience, place, and applied research, as well as attendance to mediatized practices in sounded space. From sounding out the Anthropocene, to rethinking our auditory media landscapes, to exploring citizenship and community, this volume brings the original acoustic ecology problem set into the contemporary landscape of sound studies.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Acoustic Ecology: Foundations and Critical Responses
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Media and Society
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Milena Droumeva is Assistant Professor in Communication and Glenfraser Endowed Professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, specializing in cultural sound studies and sensory ethnography. She works across the fields of urban soundscape research, sonification for public engagement, as well as gender and sound in video games.
Randolph Jordan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. His research, teaching, and creative practice reside at the intersections of soundscape research, media studies, and critical geography. He has published widely on the ways in which the fields of acoustic ecology and film sound studies can inform each other.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sound, Media, Ecology
Editors: Milena Droumeva, Randolph Jordan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16569-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16568-0Published: 16 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16571-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16569-7Published: 27 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6354
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6362
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 294
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, Cultural Theory