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Author:   Trevor Pinch (Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States) ,  Karin Bijsterveld (Professor in the Department of Technology & Society Studies, Professor in the Department of Technology & Society Studies, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 17.00cm
Weight:   0.966kg
ISBN:  

9780199995813

ISBN 10:   0199995818
Pages:   612
Publication Date:   14 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contributors List of Figures Introduction: New Keys to the World of Sound - Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld SECTION I: REWORKING MACHINE SOUND: SHOP FLOOR & TEST SITES 1. The Garden in the Machine: Listening to Early American Industrialization - Mark M. Smith 2. Turning a Deaf Ear? Industrial Noise and Noise Control in Germany since the 1920s - Hans-Joachim Braun 3. ""Sobbing, whining, rumbling"": Listening to Automobiles as Social Practice - Stefan Krebs 4. Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry - Eefje Cleophas and Karin Bijsterveld SECTION II: STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE FIELD 5. Sound Sterile: Making Scientific Field Recordings in Ornithology - Joeri Bruyninckx 6. Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science - Stefan Helmreich 7. A Grey Box: The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920 - Julia Kursell SECTION III. STAGING SOUND FOR SCIENCE AND ART: THE LAB 8. From Scientific Instruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome, and Siren - Myles W. Jackson 9. Conversions: Sound and Sight, Military and Civilian - Cyrus Mody 10. The Search for the 'Killer Application': Drawing the Boundaries Around the Sonification of Scientific Data - Alexandra Supper SECTION IV: SPEAKING FOR THE BODY: THE CLINIC 11. Inner and Outer Sancta: Ear Plugs and Hospitals - Hillel Schwartz 12. Sounding Bodies: Medical Studies and the Acquisition of Stethoscopic Perspectives - Tom Rice 13. Do Signals Have Politics? Inscribing Abilities in Cochlear Implants - Mara Mills SECTION V: EDITING SOUND: THE DESIGN STUDIO 14. Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games - Mark Grimshaw 15. The Sonic Playpen: Sound Design and Technology in Pixar's Animated Shorts - William Whittington 16. The Avant-garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s - Timothy Taylor SECTION VI: CONSUMING SOUND AND MUSIC: THE HOME AND BEYOND 17. Visibly Audible: The Radio Dial as Mediating Interface - Andreas Fickers 18. From Listening to Distribution: Non-official Music Practices in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s - Trever Hagen with Tia DeNora 19.The Amateur in the Age of Mechanical Music - Mark Katz 20. Online Music Sites as Sonic Sociotechnical Communities: Identity, Reputation, and Technology at ACIDplanet.com - Trevor Pinch and Katherine Athanasiades SECTION VII: MOVING SOUND AND MUSIC: DIGITAL STORAGE 21. Analog turns Digital: Hip-hop, Technology, and the Maintenance of Racial Authenticity - Ray Fouche 22. iPod Culture: The Toxic Pleasures of Audiotopia - Michael Bull 23. The Recording that Never Wanted to be Heard, and Other Stories of Sonification - Jonathan Sterne and Mitchell Akiyama Index"

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The wealth of audiovisual examples in these links and the breadth of the topics covered make this handbook a valuable scholarly reference and teaching resource. Bibliographies and notes at the end of each essay and the comprehensive index increase the book's usefulness as a reference tool...Essential. * Choice *

The wealth of audiovisual examples in these links and the breadth of the topics covered make this handbook a valuable scholarly reference and teaching resource. Bibliographies and notes at the end of each essay and the comprehensive index increase the book's usefulness as a reference tool...Essential. --Choice A substantial and commendable addition to its field of study, laying out current trends among its most prominent scholars while also looking ahead to issues that can shape future scholarly investigation of sound and human experience. --ARSC Journal

<br> The wealth of audiovisual examples in these links and the breadth of the topics covered make this handbook a valuable scholarly reference and teaching resource. Bibliographies and notes at the end of each essay and the comprehensive index increase the book's usefulness as a reference tool...Essential. --Choice<p><br>

"""The wealth of audiovisual examples in these links and the breadth of the topics covered make this handbook a valuable scholarly reference and teaching resource. Bibliographies and notes at the end of each essay and the comprehensive index increase the book's usefulness as a reference tool...Essential."" --Choice ""Discusses persuasively a breadth of sounds--birdsong to underwater music to television advertising--current-day digital practices for sound in video games, movies, iPods, and computers, and challenges readers (and researchers) to rethink the way they hear and understand the world."" --Leonardo"

Author Information

Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, and author or co-author of several books including Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (2002, with Frank Trocco) and The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology (1993, 1998, with Harry Collins). Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008), and co-editor of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009, with José van Dijck).

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