Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise

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Introduction
SECTION 1 .
Chapter 1 . The (not so) Noisy Elephants in the Room.
Chapter 2 . Noisea.
Chapter 3 . Noise, Horror, Death.
SECTION 2 .
Chapter 4 . On the Difficulties of Attending to Noise.
Chapter 5 . On the Difficulties of Listening to Noise.
SECTION 3 .
Chapter 6 . On Noise and Film. Planet, Rabbit, Lynch.
Chapter 7 . On Noise and Photography. Forest, Fuzz, Ruff.
Chapter 8 . On Noise and Music. Concrete (reprise), Woolly Mammoth.
Conclusion

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Everyone knows what noise is. Or do they? Can we in fact say that one man's noise is another teenager's music? Is noise in fact only an auditory phenomenon or does it extend far beyond this realm? If our common definitions of noise are necessarily subjective and noise is not just unpleasant sound, then it merits a closer look (or listen). Greg Hainge sets out to define noise in this way, to find within it a series of operations common across its multiple manifestations that allow us to apprehend it as something other than a highly subjective term that tells us very little. Examining a wide range of texts, including Sartre's novel Nausea and David Lynch's iconic films Eraserhead and Inland Empire, Hainge investigates some of the Twentieth Century's most infamous noisemongers to suggest that they're not that noisy after all; and it finds true noise in some surprising places. The result is a thrilling and illuminating study of sound and culture.

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In the decade since, a stunning range of new offerings from a variety of publishers has become readily available, and sound studies is a far more expansive discipline. This fact is nowhere more evident than in Bloomsbury Academic's excellent sound studies catalog ... the scholarship here shows how adept the cultural study of sound can be at unearthing the thorny political and social tensions that define contemporary culture. -- Nicholas C. Laudadio, University of North Carolina Wilmington

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