The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past

ISBN-13: 9781138699168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 178 str.

Sean Street

Opis

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the brain is triggered by the memory of programs, songs, and individual sounds. He then examines the growing importance of sound archives, community radio and current research using GPS technology for the history of place, as well as the potential for developing strategies to aid Alzheimer's and dementia patients through audio memory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Echoes and Shadows  2. Tell Me a Story  3. Radio: Feeding the Imagination  4. ‘Father of the Man’: Radio, Audio and Youth  5. Music Memory: Music in the Moment  6. Ourselves as History: An Encyclopaedia of Sounds  7. Walls Have Voices  8. Saving the Sound, Spreading the Word  9. Holding on to Sounds  10. The Future Sound of Memory  Appendix: Radio in the Context of Memory

O autorze

Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University. He is author of The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound (Routledge, 2012). He is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 and a poet, with nine published collections. He lives in Liverpool, UK.