Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Musical meaning in between: ineffability, atmosphere and asubjectivity in musical experience / Tere Vadén and Juha Torvinen -- Intensity, atmospheres and music / Hermann Schmitz -- Timbre, taste and epistemic tasks: a cross-cultural perspective on atmosphere and vagueness / Ruard Absaroka -- Atmosphere and Northern music: ecomusicological-phenomenological analysis of Kalevi Aho's Eight Seasons / Juha Torvinen -- The "right" kind of hal: feeling and foregrounding atmospheric identity in an Algerian music ritual / Tamara Turner -- Sonic atmospheres in an American jail / Andrew McGraw -- The substance of the situation: an anthropology of sensibility / Holger Schulze -- Bodies in motion: music, dance and atmospheres in Palauan ruk / Birgit Abels -- Acoustemologies of rebetiko love songs / Dafni Tragaki -- The tune of the magic flute: on atmospheres and history / Erik Wallrup -- Between things and souls: sacred atmospheres and immersive listening in late eighteenth-century sentimentalism / Anne Holzmüller -- Transformations in mediations of lived sonic experience: a sensobiographic approach / Milla Tiainen, Inkeri Aula and Helmi Jäviluoma -- A pedagogy of the event: an introduction / Christoph Carsten -- Affect and atmosphere: two sides of the same coin? / Friedlind Riedel -- Atmospheres: Schmitz, Massumi and beyond / Jan Slaby -- Dim, massive and important: atmosphere in process / Brian Massumi
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Music as Atmosphere - Collective Feelings and Affective Sounds is the first collection of essays on music, sound, and atmosphere. The volume assembles an impressively cross-disciplinary panoply of scholars from music studies, sound studies, philosophy, and media studies, all of whom investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings, that is, as atmospheres. The contributors explore atmosphereological approaches to musical traditions and practices, aural histories and memory, music's relationship to the body, social collectives, and nature. They probe conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions of atmosphere and affect but then also extend the spatial and relational focus towards fundamentally temporal questions of performance, process, timbre, resonance, and personhood. In doing so they touch on the capacity of atmospheric relations to imbue a situation with an ambient feeling and to modulate social collectives but also underscore auditory experience as an acoustemology for atmosphere. In addition to original research, the volume features a first translation of an important text by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz, and a debate on affect and atmosphere between the philosophers Jan Slaby and Brian Massumi. This wide-ranging collection provides a strong theoretical framework and vibrant case-studies. It also proposes some intriguing new approaches. It constitutes a rich resource for scholars and students of music, sound, aesthetics, media, anthropology, and contemporary philosophy"--