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Author Eisenberg, Annika, author

Title Navigating urban soundscapes : Dublin and Los Angeles in fiction / Annika Eisenberg
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages)
Series Literary urban studies, 2523-7896
Literary urban studies, 2523-7896
Contents Introduction -- Mediated Sound -- Tunement: Listening to Listening -- Urban Sonar -- Teeming with Traffic -- Crowded Voices -- Aquacities -- Conclusion: Rewind-Fast Forward
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sound in literature.
City and town life in literature.
City sounds -- Ireland -- Dublin
City sounds -- California -- Los Angeles
City and town life in literature
City sounds
Sound in literature
California -- Los Angeles
Ireland -- Dublin
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031167348
3031167341