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Memory of Sound, The: Preserving the Sonic Past


Memory of Sound, The: Preserving the Sonic Past

Hardback by Street, Seán (Bournemouth University, UK)

Memory of Sound, The: Preserving the Sonic Past

£145.00

ISBN:
9780415713986
Publication Date:
24 Jun 2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
178 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 12 May 2024
Memory of Sound, The: Preserving the Sonic Past

Description

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.

Contents

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

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