Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction

ISBN-13: 9783031167331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 244 str.

Annika Eisenberg

Opis

Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.

Spis treści

Introduction

Mediated Sound

Tunement: Listening to Listening

Urban Sonar

Teeming with Traffic

Crowded Voices

Aquacities

Conclusion: Rewind – Fast Forward 

O autorze

Annika Eisenberg received her PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where she is currently employed. She specialises in literary sound studies, media aesthetics, and representations of urban spaces in fiction and has published on these topics.