Research Catalog

Title

Music as atmosphere : collective feelings and affective sounds / edited by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Riedel, Friedlind
• Torvinen, Juha, 1975-

Description

xii, 309 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces

Uniform Title

Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces.

Subject

• Music > Psychological aspects
• Affect (Psychology)
• Emotions in music
• Sound > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JME 20-171

ISBN

• 9780815358688
• 0815358687
• 9780815358718 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429631627 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429633119 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429630132 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019050046

OCLC

1126347229

Title

Music as atmosphere : collective feelings and affective sounds / edited by Friedlind Riedel and Juha Torvinen.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces

Ambiances, atmospheres and sensory experiences of spaces.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Riedel, Friedlind, editor.

Torvinen, Juha, 1975- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Music as atmosphere [1.] New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780815358718 (DLC) 2019050047

Research Call Number

JME 20-171