Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense - from the intersection of sound and modernity, through to the relationship between audio-technological advances and issues of personal and urban space. As cultures and communities grapple with the massive changes wrought by modernization and globalization, Hearing Cultures presents an important new approach to understanding our world. It answers such intriguing questions as: * Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? * In what way does technology affect our ears? * Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? * Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? * What happens acoustically in cross-cultural first encounters?* Why do Runa Indians in the Amazon basin now consider onomatopoetic speech child's talk? The ear, as much as the eye, nose, mouth and hand, offers a way into experience. All five senses are instruments that record, interpret and engage with the world. This book shows how sound offers a refreshing new lens through which to examine culture and complex social issues.
Veit Erlmann holds the Endowed Chair of Music History. He studied musicology, sociology, anthropology and philosophy in Berlin and Cologne, where he obtained a Dr.phil. in 1978 and did a Habilitation in musicology in 1989 and in anthropology in 1994. He has done fieldwork in Ecuador and in several African countries such as Cameroon, Niger, Ghana, South Africa and Lesotho. Currently he is doing research in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Dr. Erlmann has been on the faculties of the University of Natal, the University of Chicago, the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and the Free University of Berlin. Among his publications are African Stars, Studies in Black South African Performance and Nightsong, and Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa, both published by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book, Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination, published by Oxford University Press won the Alan P.Merriam Prize for the best English-language monograph in ethnomusicology.
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这本书的结构和行文都非常别致,读起来不像传统的学术论著,反而更像是一场引人入胜的口述历史,又像是一次深入人心的田野调查。作者以一种非常亲切且富有洞察力的方式,带领读者走进各个不同的文化语境,去聆听那些构成其独特性的声音。我被书中关于声音如何塑造社会互动和权力关系的分析所深深吸引,它让我意识到,声音不仅仅是沟通的工具,更是一种构建社会秩序、维系群体关系的重要力量。书中关于声音的“边界”和“过滤”的讨论,也给我留下了深刻的印象,它揭示了在信息爆炸的时代,我们如何通过声音来界定自我和他人,如何筛选和组织我们所感知到的世界。这本书让我重新思考了“倾听”的含义,它不仅仅是被动地接收,更是一种主动的参与和创造。我强烈推荐这本书给所有对人类文化、声音传播以及社会学感兴趣的读者,它一定会带给你意想不到的收获和启示。
评分这本书的封面设计非常吸引人,深邃的蓝色背景上,几只形态各异的耳廓若隐若现,仿佛诉说着无数未曾言说的故事。光看封面,我就被深深地勾起了好奇心,迫不及待地想要翻开它,探寻它所能带给我的听觉盛宴。我一直对声音的细微之处充满兴趣,也曾好奇过不同文化背景下的人们是如何感知和理解世界的,这本书的名字“Hearing Cultures”恰好触动了我内心深处的那份渴望。我期待它能带我走进一个充满奇妙声音的世界,让我体验那些我从未设想过的听觉维度。或许,它会讲述一些关于音乐、关于语言、关于自然之声的独特故事,也可能更深入地探讨声音如何塑造我们的身份认同、社会关系,甚至是我们的思维方式。我希望这本书能够打开我全新的视角,让我意识到,我们习以为常的听觉世界,其实蕴含着如此丰富而多样的文化密码。也许,通过这本书,我能学会去聆听那些被忽略的细语,去分辨那些被掩盖的韵律,去感受那些潜藏在喧嚣背后的寂静。我真心希望,这本书能够满足我对声音世界的好奇心,也期待它能给我带来意想不到的惊喜和启发。
评分这本书给我的感觉,就像一首精心编排的交响乐,每一个章节都如同独立的乐章,却又彼此呼应,共同构建出一幅宏大而精美的听觉画卷。作者的叙事方式非常独特,他/她似乎有一种魔力,能够将抽象的听觉概念具象化,让我仿佛能触摸到声音的质感,甚至感受到声波在空气中传递时的微妙震动。书中的案例研究和文化分析,都做得极为深入和细腻,让我对不同文化背景下的人们如何处理、利用和珍视声音有了更深刻的理解。我被书中关于“静默”的章节所深深吸引,它颠覆了我之前对静默的认知,让我意识到,有时,真正的智慧就潜藏在那些看似空无一物的寂静之中。这本书不仅仅是关于“听”的,更是关于“如何去听”,关于如何去感知、去理解、去共情。它让我意识到,我们所生活的世界,是一个充满声音的奇迹,而这本书,正是打开这些奇迹之门的钥匙。我感到非常幸运能够读到这本书,它让我对自己的听觉能力有了全新的认识,也让我对人类文化的多样性有了更深的敬畏。
评分阅读《Hearing Cultures》的过程,对我而言,是一次充满惊喜的“声音奇遇”。作者的文字流畅而富有感染力,仿佛带我进入了一个由声音构筑的奇幻世界。我从未想到,平日里我们可能忽略的声音,竟然蕴含着如此丰富的文化意义和情感力量。书中关于声音在不同社会仪式和群体认同中扮演角色的探讨,让我大开眼界,也让我开始重新审视自己生活中那些熟悉的声音。我尤其喜欢书中对于声音“叙事”的描绘,原来,每一个声音,都是一个故事的开端,都可能承载着一段历史,一种情感,一种文化。这本书让我学会了用一种全新的方式去“听”,不再仅仅是被动地接收声音信号,而是主动地去解读、去理解、去连接。我感觉自己仿佛拥有了一双“超级耳朵”,能够捕捉到那些平日里难以察觉的微妙之处。这本书的启发性非常强,它不仅让我对听觉产生了浓厚的兴趣,更让我对人类文化的多样性和复杂性有了更深的理解。
评分读完这本书,我感觉自己仿佛经历了一次声波的旅行,穿越了时间和空间,抵达了那些我从未真正“听过”的地方。它不像一本枯燥的学术著作,而是像一位经验丰富的向导,用生动有趣的笔触,带领我探索人类听觉世界的广袤图景。书中对于不同群体如何构建和解读声音的描绘,让我不禁反思自己对“听到”这件事的理解。那些关于仪式、关于节日、关于日常交流中声音所扮演角色的细节,都充满了令人惊叹的洞察力。我尤其被书中关于声音记忆的部分所打动,原来那些熟悉的声音,不仅仅是声音本身,更承载着我们丰富的情感和深刻的过往。这本书让我意识到,听觉,远比我们想象的要复杂和深刻,它不仅仅是被动接收信息的过程,更是一个主动建构意义、连接彼此、传承文化的核心维度。我迫不及待地想将这本书推荐给我的朋友们,特别是那些同样热爱探索未知、渴望拓宽视野的人。我相信,这本书一定会给他们带来前所未有的阅读体验,让他们对“听到”这个简单而又深奥的词语,产生全新的认识。
评分声音人类学论文集,Veit Erlmann的第一篇“But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound, and the Senses”提纲挈领。
评分声音人类学论文集,Veit Erlmann的第一篇“But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound, and the Senses”提纲挈领。
评分声音人类学论文集,Veit Erlmann的第一篇“But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound, and the Senses”提纲挈领。
评分声音人类学论文集,Veit Erlmann的第一篇“But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound, and the Senses”提纲挈领。
评分声音人类学论文集,Veit Erlmann的第一篇“But What of the Ethnographic Ear? Anthropology, Sound, and the Senses”提纲挈领。
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