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Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
Nina Sun Eidsheim
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Description for Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
Hardback. 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. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound—such as air being the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the importance a performance's location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the ... Read more
In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case studies to challenge common assumptions about sound—such as air being the default medium through which it travels—and to demonstrate the importance a performance's location and reception play in its contingency. By theorizing the voice as an object of knowledge and rejecting the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Sign, Storage, Transmission
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360469
SKU
V9780822360469
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About Nina Sun Eidsheim
Nina Sun Eidsheim is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice
"Even if we consider 'the voice' as a sound source, in an average personal imaginary ‘sound’ is something external, while 'the voice' is something internal and intimate. If we add to that the extreme power of language, it’s even harder to treat the voice as 'sound.' Eidsheim explores these contradictions in her book with knowledge and vision. Her theory of ... Read more