{"title":"The Acoustic Imaginations of East Asia","authors":"Kerim Yasar","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.21","url":null,"abstract":"Kerim Yasar provides a consideration of the acoustic imagination in literary works from the Sinosphere (China, Japan, and Korea). Yasar explores the development and use of sound symbolism in these countries’ writing systems, arguing that, even with such sound symbol–rich systems to hand, the Sinosphere’s authors depended and still depend on the active imaginative participation of their readers in order to cocreate the acoustic depictions found in their work. Spreading his survey of the literary traditions of the Sinosphere across three-thousand-year-old Chinese literature to modern Japanese manga, Yasar further demonstrates that the conceptualization of sound within the Sinosphere cultures helps shape the imagination and representation of sound within that culture’s language and literature.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128005412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beacons of Sound","authors":"Martin Knakkergaard","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.35","url":null,"abstract":"Martin Knakkergaard discusses expectations and imaginations vis-à-vis the concert hall of the twenty-first century. The chapter outlines some of the central historical implications of Western culture’s haven for sounding music and its impact on the understanding of the musical phenomenon as an element in societal and cultural processes. Based on his case study of the Icelandic concert house Harpa, Knakkergaard considers how these implications, together with the prime mover’s visions, have been transformed as private investors and politicians take over. Throughout, Knakkergaard investigates the objectives required of musical sound and the far-reaching demands of the acoustics that modern concert halls must necessarily meet.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128555515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concerning the Iconic Signification of Music in Cinema","authors":"Michael Chanan","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.29","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Chanan investigates the complex implications of what is referred to as musical iconography, in which music works as a subtle and polysemic signifier of nonmusical associations and connotations, thereby functioning as a congealed but ambiguous cultural symbol. Through a brief historic sketch covering the period of the silent movie to the present, Chanan points out how music brings codes and connotations from outside and beyond the screen into film. He discusses how music augments narrative ambiguity but can also encompass different superimposed temporalities, comprising historical events, private biographies, and collective memory.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128380491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noise and Tranquility at Stonehenge","authors":"Odd Are Berkaak","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.15","url":null,"abstract":"By tracing archaeological, poetic, artistic, literary, legal, and political factors, Odd Are Berkaak investigates and discusses a number of controversies surrounding the sound environment at the world-famous prehistoric monument Stonehenge. Berkaak pieces together an understanding of how imagination—as built on subjective impressions, on the one side, and on collectively constructed cognitive schema, on the other—links the sensory experience of tranquility and the cultural category of dignity. In his quest, Berkaak touches on a number of aspects ranging from the promotion of cultural heritage to painting and literature.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132603272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sensation of Sound and Imagination in a Historical Perspective","authors":"S. Klempe","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.2","url":null,"abstract":"Sven Hroar Klempe traces the concept of imagination in the history of philosophy and psychology, focusing on the period starting from the German enlightenment, and his chapter deals extensively with the works of a number of prominent scholars from the past three centuries such as Christian Wolff, Alexander Baumgarten, Kant, and Carl Stumpf. Klempe discusses how the imagination of sound and music can be seen as a specific type of imagination, and he elucidates how sound and music provide an alternative understanding of imagination from that provided by language. This discussion focuses on the relationship between sensation and imagination and the complexity of sensory processes that music and sound can reflect in a way that language cannot.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124248121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining Acoustic Spaces through Listening and Acoustic Ecology","authors":"B. Truax","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.32","url":null,"abstract":"Using the concept of acoustic ecology as his bulwark, Barry Truax theorizes listening as an embodied interface to our auditory environment. Acoustic spaces, Truax argues, should be understood as simultaneously real and imagined, and he discusses how such forms of dual perception exist in both everyday soundscapes and technologically mediated soundscapes. He contends that memory, imagining, and anticipation are closely connected to all stages of listening. These aspects of listening are further used to explore and define what Truax calls the “acoustic community”—that soundscape that emerges as a product of collective individual imagination.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131126089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinema as Social Knowledge","authors":"François Ribac","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.28","url":null,"abstract":"François Ribac discusses how the Beatles—within the field of popular music—gave substance to a technical and social organization that the cinema made culturally possible. Cinema, being just as much a technique as a way of organizing and hearing the world, introduced the Beatles and their sound engineers simultaneously to a nonnaturalistic use of sound and to rock “n” roll which made it possible for them to invent “a cinema for the ears.” Ribac describes how the methods and the temporality of the cinema as well as its conventions, division of labor, and the concept of the studio inspired the envisioning of a musical form that was disconnected from traditional music-making of the time.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"9 30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132963540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presence, Environment, and Sound and the Role of Imagination","authors":"M. Grimshaw-Aagaard","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190460167.013.33","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard addresses the role of sound in the creation of presence in virtual and actual worlds. He argues that imagination is a central part of the generation and selection of perceptual hypotheses—models of the world in which we can act—that emerge from what Grimshaw-Aagaard calls the “exo-environment” (the sensory input) and the “endo-environment” (the cognitive input). Grimshaw-Aagaard further divides the exo-environment into a primarily auditory and a primarily visual dimension and he deals with the actual world of his own apartment and the virtual world of first-person-shooter computer games in order to exemplify how we perceptually construct an environment that allows for the creation of presence.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133270628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audio Inside the Mind","authors":"S. Street","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.20","url":null,"abstract":"The sonic imagery of poetry and the poetry of radio are the subjects of Seán Street’s chapter. Street argues for a poetics of sound, whereby sound, like poetry, can stimulate images and feelings from the breadcrumbs contained within. Sound, especially that sound forming sonic art as found in many radio dramas and narratives, is essentially ambiguous, and it is this very ambiguity that sparks the imagination of the listener, plucking long-forgotten experiences from the deep recesses of our memory, experiences that, Street claims, are crucial factors in the preservation of our sense of self.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129990317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical Preferences and the Imagined Self","authors":"A. Lamont","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.12","url":null,"abstract":"Alexandra Lamont discusses how musical preferences are a way to construct, reconstruct, and communicate a sense of identity, indicating aspects of personality, attitudes, and lifestyle. She reviews recent research demonstrating how musical preferences can provide information about age, gender, and personality. In addition to the social dimension, she also touches on aspects of personal musical identity that are developed through imagination. Lamont furthermore considers our imagined relationships with the music itself and the musicians responsible for creating and performing it, taking a lifespan perspective from childhood and adolescence through to old age.","PeriodicalId":104858,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128557521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}