Hear where we are : sound, ecology, and sense of place / by Michael Stocker

Author:: Stöcker, Michael
Additional Titles:: Sound, ecology, and sense of place
Published:: New York : Springer, 2013.
Physical Description:: xvi, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Hear Here: The impact of sound on personal placement -- Sound and the Perceptual Body -- Cultural and Gender Distinctions -- Our Soundscape: At Play Between Silence and Noise -- Warning, Alert, and Alarm -- Sound, Comfort, and Belonging -- Media and the Sounds of Our Times -- Sonic Imprinting: Acoustic Communities and emotional responses to specific sounds -- 2.The Song of Creation -- Some Songlines -- Naming: Taking Possession of the Created -- The Persona -- Bells and Boundaries -- Taking Control -- Sound and Warfare -- Sound and Healing -- Sound and Intention -- 3.What is this thing called "Sound?" -- The Mechanics of Sound -- Wavelength, frequency, velocity, absorptivity, and reflectivity come into play -- Stereophonation and Localization: Hearing Space -- Hearing -- Human hearing organs -- The Mysterious Cochlea -- Outside the Cochlea -- 4.Sound Menagerie: Other Animals' Sound Perception -- Fish Ears and Ocean Hearing -- Whale Details: The Hearing of Whales and Dolphins -- Real Ears -- Ears to the Ground -- (Some) Bug Ears -- Ears Take Flight: Bird Ears -- 5.Communication: Sound into Form -- Not Language -- Seeds of Sound Communication -- Perceptual Platforms -- Acoustic Community, Acoustical Niches -- Infrasonic Communication and Acoustical Cohesion -- "Seeing" with Sound: Ultrasonics and Echolocation -- The time domain of stridulating insects -- Mapping: Memory, cognition, and participation.

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ISBN:

9781461472841 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
1461472849 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781461472858 (eBook)
1461472857 (eBook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 2013

Endowment Note:

Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library

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