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- Provides a novel, philosophical perspective of sound, concerned with the emotional effect of 'moments of sound', and our potential to develop deeper responses to these events
- Offers an engaging narrative style told from perspective of a poet, an academic and a radio practitioner
- Explores the significance lying in the often-missed sounds of life, and attempts to champion an attentiveness to them
- Deconstructs the world's orchestra, uncovering the subtleties that lie almost concealed in the sound work of which we are a part
- Based principally on the author's own reflections drawn from a lifetime of gathering and listening to and for sounds in documentaries and features, and attempting to translate the world into words in poetry
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sound (PASTS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Professor Seán Street is one of our most important philosopher poets. He brings to the art of sound and radio an aesthetic conscience and creative intellect that finds the auricular heart in a grain of sand. He can articulate the meaning in those murmurings of past hearing that rest dormant in our listening memory only to be awakened by the poetic inspiration of our everyday soundscape. This beautiful book explores resonance and advances our understanding of T.S. Eliot's concept of the auditory imagination.” (Professor Tim Crook, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom
Seán Street
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sound at the Edge of Perception
Book Subtitle: The Aural Minutiae of Sand and other Worldly Murmurings
Authors: Seán Street
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sound
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1613-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1612-8Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1613-5Published: 16 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2633-5875
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5883
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 138
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Music