Listening and Voice : Phenomenologies of Sound

by Ihde, Don

• ISBN13: 9780791472569
• ISBN10: 0791472566
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-04
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Listening and Voice is an updated and expanded edition of Don Ihde's groundbreaking 1976 classic in the study of sound. Ranging from the experience of sound through language, music, religion, and silence, clear examples and illustrations take the reader into the important and often overlooked role of the auditory in human life. Ihde's newly added preface, introduction, and chapters extend these sound studies to the technologies of sound, including musical instrumentation, hearing aids, and the new group of scientific technologies which make infra- and ultra-sound available to human experience. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface to the SUNY Press Edition	p. xi
Introduction (to the Original)	p. xix
Introduction
In Praise of Sound	p. 3
Under the Signs of Husserl and Heidegger	p. 17
First Phenomenology	p. 25
Description
The Auditory Dimension	p. 49
The Shapes of Sound	p. 57
The Auditory Field	p. 73
Timeful Sound	p. 85
Auditory Horizons	p. 103
The Imaginative Mode
The Polyphony of Experience	p. 115
Auditory Imagination	p. 131
Inner Speech	p. 137
Voice
The Center of Language	p. 147
Music and Word	p. 155
Silence and Word	p. 161
Dramaturgical Voice	p. 167
The Face, Voice, and Silence	p. 177
Phenomenologies
A Phenomenology of Voice	p. 185
Auditory Imagination	p. 203
Listening	p. 217
Acoustic Technologies
Bach to Rock: Amplification	p. 227
Jazz Embodied: Instrumentation	p. 235
Embodying Hearing Devices: Digitalization	p. 243
Embodiment, Technologies, and Musics	p. 251
Notes	p. 265
Index	p. 273
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