Sound works : a cultural theory of sound design /

Sound works : a cultural theory of sound design /

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Author / Creator:	Schulze, Holger, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019] ©2019
Description:	x, 258 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sound -- Recording and reproducing. Sound -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11807012

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ISBN:	1501330225 9781501330223
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	What is sound design? What function does it have in the early 21st century and what role could it play in the near future? This book explores the current state of functional sound design, its recent history, its characteristic forms of labor and how it is deeply interwoven with everyday life practices. In four parts this book tries to give an answer to the question Why that Sound? with a historical overview on how the magic trick of sound design degraded from providing an incommensurable shock to obeying contemporary ideologies of efficiency; a large visual part with 80 figures documents and questions the current state of Sonic Labor between a sound designer's private workbench, manifold forms of design abuse, and continuous pitching detours; a cultural analysis of Living with Sounds explores how sonic signs are domesticated, how sonic patterns can be decolonized, and what cultural transmission they contribute to leads then to the final part of Sound Works: How is designing sound for the sonic consumers of today situated in a surveillance society between affective labor and silencing dispositives? In what ways can the protagonists of the contemporary sonic workforce transform the situation of sonic labor in the near future? For professional sound designers and sound artists, for design aficionados and passionate listeners, and for researchers in the fields of sound studies, design research and cultural studies this volume provides an essential introduction to sound design as well as a provocative critique of contemporary design practices and sound cultures.
Other form:	Electronic version: Schulze, Hlger. Sound works. New york, NU : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019] 9781501330230

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Summary:	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
Physical Description:	x, 258 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1501330225 9781501330223