Seán Street

The Sound of a Room

Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sound of a Room takes a poetic and philosophical approach to exploring these questions, providing a thoughtful investigation of the sonic aesthetics of our lived environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780367463342
• ISBN-10: 0367463342
• Artikelnr.: 59982540

Autorenporträt

Seán Street holds an Emeritus Professorship at Bournemouth University. Previous works on sound include The Poetry of Radio and The Memory of Sound (Routledge, 2013/2015,) as well as a trilogy published by Palgrave, Sound Poetics ( 2017,) Sound at the Edge of Perception (2018), and The Sound Inside the Silence: Travels in the Sonic Imagination (2019.) He is a published poet, and a radio programme maker for the BBC and other broadcasters.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. In One Circle Bound
2. A Day in the Life
3. Performing Rooms
4. The Sound of a Room at Prayer
5. Walking through Urban Sound
6. Landscapes, Beachscapes, Soundscapes
7. Interviewing Space
8. The Rooms We Make and the Rooms We Are
Index

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Acknowledgements

Preface

1. In One Circle Bound



2. A Day in the Life



3. Performing Rooms



4. The Sound of a Room at Prayer



5. Walking through Urban Sound



6. Landscapes, Beachscapes, Soundscapes



7. Interviewing Space



8. The Rooms We Make and the Rooms We Are

Index

Rezensionen

"Séan Street opens our ears.... [to] the sounds that exist inside us, both physically and psychologically.... [to] consider the sound of the rooms in our own minds, poems, novels, works of art.... Séan Street gently conducts us on."

-Hilary Davies, The Times Literary Supplement