Navigating Urban Soundscapes

Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-16736-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Literary Urban Studies

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eisenberg, Annika

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Mediated Sound.- Tunement: Listening to Listening.- Urban Sonar.- Teeming with Traffic.- Crowded Voices.- Aquacities.- Conclusion: Rewind – Fast Forward.

Über Autor(innen)

Annika Eisenberg received her PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where she is currently employed. She specialises in literary sound studies, media aesthetics, and representations of urban spaces in fiction and has published on these topics.