Just Beyond Listening

Essays of Sonic Encounter

Michael C Heller author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:12th Dec '23

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Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual interference, and spectral haunting. The text investigates sound that is experienced in other parts of the body, altered by cross-wirings of the senses, weaponized by the military, or mediated and changed by cultural practices and memory. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies and affect theory, Heller questions not only how sound propagates acoustically but how sonic presences temper our total experience of the world around us.

ISBN: 9780520350779

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 499g

280 pages