{"product_id":"the-sonic-persona-holger-schulze-9781501305450","title":"The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Sonic Persona, \u003c\/i\u003e Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with disturbing sonic experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Hermann von Helmholtz to Miley Cyrus, from FLUXUS to the Arab Spring, from Wavefield Synthesis to otoacoustic emissions, from premillennial clubculture to postdemocratic authoritarianism, from signal processing to human echolocation: This book presents a fundamental critique concerning recent sound theories and their anthropological concepts - and proposes an alternate, a more plastic, a visceral framework for research in the field of a cultural anthropology of sounding and listening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthropology of sound takes its readers and listeners on a research expedition to the multitude of alien humanoids and their surprising sonic personae: in dynamic and generative tension between predetermined auditory dispositives, miniscule and not seldomly ignored sound practices, and idiosyncratic sensory corpuses: a critique of the senses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm going to prove the impossible really exists.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holger Schulze\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150130545X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501305450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Holger Schulze","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985961877759,"sku":"9781501305450","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a904c69-6284-4252-b248-16b006cbf965.jpg?v=1683280558","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sonic-persona-holger-schulze-9781501305450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}