• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Sounds in translation : intersections of music, technology and society
  • Contains: Introduction / Amy Chan
    'soundAFFECTs': translation, writing, new media, affect / Hazel Smith
    Edible audience: what about this gastronomic performance translated as sound art? / Alistair Riddell
    Translating the musical image: case studies of expert musicians / Freya Bailes
    Translating the tradition: the many lives of Green Bushes / Jennifer Gall
    Ancient and modern footprints: music and the mysteries of Lake Mungo / Adam Shoemaker
    Translating the shigu from the streets to the stage / Amy Chan
    Domesticating the foreign: singing salvation through translation in the Australian Catholic Chinese community / Nicholas Ng
    Singing the syllables: translating spelling into music in Tibetan spelling chant / Phil Rose
    Voice-scapes: transl(oc)ating the performed voice in ethnomusicology / Henry Johnson.
  • Contributor: Chan, Amy [Other]; Noble, Alistair [Other]
  • imprint: Acton, A.C.T.: ANU E Press, 2009
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781921536557; 1921536551; 9781921536540; 1921536543
  • Keywords: Music Acoustics and physics. ; Sound ; Sound. ; Music Acoustics and physics ; Music ; Social groups ; Society and culture: general ; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences ; MUSIC ; Ethnomusicology ; Music ; Acoustics and physics ; Music Philosophy ; Music, Dance, Drama & Film ; Ethnic studies ; Electronic books
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  • Footnote: English
  • Description: "Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer's challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human environment. This book takes up his challenge to contemporary audiologists, musicologists and sound artists working within areas of music, cultural studies, media studies and social science to explore the idea of the 'soundscape' and to investigate the acoustic environment that we inhabit. It seeks to raise questions regarding the translative process of sound: 1) what happens to sound during the process of transfer and transformation; and 2) what transpires in the process of sound production/expression/performance. Sounds in Translation was conceived to take advantage of new technology and a development in book publishing, the electronic book. Much of what is written in the book is best illustrated by the sound itself, and in that sense, permits sound to 'speak for itself'."--Publisher's description.
  • Access State: Open Access