Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid

Description: Ubiquitous Listening by Anahid Kassabian How does the constant presence of music in modern life - on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television - affect the way we listen? In this title, the author investigates many sounds that surround us and argues that this ubiquity has led to different kinds of listening. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How does the constant presence of music in modern life-on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television-affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such passive listening? In Ubiquitous Listening, Anahid Kassabian investigates the many sounds that surround us and argues that this ubiquity has led to different kinds of listening. Kassabian argues for a new examination of the music we do not normally hear (and by implication, that we do), one that examines the way it is used as a marketing tool and a mood modulator, and exploring the ways we engage with this music. Flap "Anahid Kassabian offers us a way of thinking about listening that is dynamic, unique, timely and original. Kassabian reimagines listening for our age; she constructs new objects and asks fresh questions. Ubiquitous Listening offers a new foundation for understanding music in contemporary life ."--Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Audible Past: Origins of Sound Reproduction "[This work] is an important study of a phenomenon that has a wide-ranging significance... [Kassabians] approach to the subject incorporates insights and poses challenges to existing paradigms in a range of interconnected fields, and is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship at its most innovative."--Steve Waksman, author of Instruments of Desire: the Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience "A leading light in the burgeoning field of sound studies, Anahid Kassabian has richly expanded the field with the many insights of Ubiquitous Listening . Brilliantly comparing and contrasting how we hear ubiquitous sound with how we listen to music, Kassabian deepens our understanding of affect, technologies of attention and distributed subjectivities. A must read for those of us doing critical theory in these times."--Patricia Ticineto Clough, editor of The Affective Turn Author Biography Anahid Kassabian is the James and Constance Alsop Chair of Music at the Institute of Popular Music and the School of Music at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music (Routledge 2001). Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ubiquitous Listening 2. Listening to Video Art and the Problem of Too Many Homelands 3. The Sound of a New Film Form 4. Musicals Hit the Small Screen: Attention, Listening, and TV Musical Episodes 5. Improvising Diasporan Identities: Armenian Jazz 6. Would You Like Some World Music with Your Latte?: Starbucks, Putumayo, and Distributed Tourism Conclusion Works Cited Notes Index Details ISBN0520275152 Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0520275152 ISBN-13 9780520275157 Format Hardcover Short Title UBIQUITOUS LISTENING Media Book DEWEY 781.11 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 2 tables, 1 music example Series A Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Book UK Release Date 2013-03-01 AU Release Date 2013-03-01 NZ Release Date 2013-03-01 US Release Date 2013-03-01 Author Anahid Kassabian Pages 182 Publication Date 2013-03-01 Publisher University of California Press Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159741989;

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