The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

by Trevor Pinch and Karin Bijsterveld

Book Overview

Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in the emerging field of sound studies, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and fully engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388941
• ISBN13: 9780195388947
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.8"