Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity

by Anahid Kassabian

Book Overview

How does the constant presence of music in modern life--on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television--affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such passive listening? In Ubiquitous Listening, Anahid Kassabian investigates the many sounds that surround us and argues that this ubiquity has led to different kinds of listening. Kassabian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520275152
• ISBN13: 9780520275157
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"