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Tokyo Listening Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City
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Title
Tokyo Listening [electronic resource] : Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City / Lorraine Plourde.
ISBN
0819578851
9780819578853
9780819578839
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (174 pages) :) illustrations
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Drawing on recent scholarship in the fields of sound studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology and over fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, Lorraine Plourde traces the linkages between sound and urban space. She examines listening cultures via four main ethnographic sites in Tokyo--an experimental music venue, classical music cafes, office workspaces, and department stores--looking specifically at how such auditory sensibilities are cultivated. The book brings together two different types of spaces into the same frame of reference: places people go to specifically for the music, and spaces where the music comes to them. Tokyo Listening examines the sensory experience of urban listening as a planned and multifaceted dimension of everyday city life, ultimately exploring the relationship between sound, comfort, happiness, and productivity.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Archaeology and Anthropology
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-164) and index.
Contents
Listening to the city : distraction, attention, and ubiquitous listening
Learning to listen to Onkyō : ear training as sensory attunement
City noise and the avant-garde
"A place where time moves slowly" : analog listening in the music cafe
New experiences in a new city for new women : ambient sound for refined women
"Feeling uncomfortable without sound" : Muzak as affect management for office workers
Retro shopping arcades Muzak
Sonic air conditioning : ubiquitous listening as mundane comfort
Tokyo listening, listening to Tokyo.
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