 | The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne
Buy new: $16.25 / Used from: $13.00 Presents a much needed critique of technological determinism and accepted philosophical understandings of sound and listening, though sometimes guilty of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater".
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 | Village Bells by Alain Corbin
Buy new: $83.50 / Used from: $2.61 Solidarity through sound on the french countryside.
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 | I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses--A Philosophical History by Jonathan Ree
Buy used from: $0.13 A history of the hearing as much as of the deaf. The relationship of the spoken/singed word to the body. Facinating and well researched.
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 | Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
Buy used from: $24.95 History of sound in the arts. With a focus on the 20th century.
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 | Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde by Histories of Sound Once Removed
Buy new: $26.51 / Used from: $17.95 Diverse collection of essays on sound in the arts.
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 | Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) by Steven Feld
Buy used from: $15.19 The poetics of sound in pigmy culture. A thoughtful look at much more than a music, but instead at aural perception and creation as a cultural whole.
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 | Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Buy new: $57.50 / Used from: $21.90 The voices of ventriquilists, spirits, angles. The technological divining rods and attitudes that sounded both their silencing and rebirth.
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 | An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by John Holm
Buy new: $47.00 / Used from: $25.46 How new languages emerge through commerce and power.
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 | Eskimo Realities by Edmund Snow Carpenter
Buy used from: $13.44 Eskimo Art, sound, and snow. An interesting read particularly if you study Deleuze. Be warned though, this book does suffer often from over-romaticism and overstatement of thesis.
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 | Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics by Perry R. Cook
Buy new: $29.03 / Used from: $28.99 Good intro to psychoacoustics. Though a bit anacronistic concerning its approaches to cognitive science.
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 | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $15.00 Sound is smooth, sight striated.
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 | The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings by Michel De Certeau
Buy used from: $23.00 Free speech and "deafness".
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 | Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Buy new: $25.76 / Used from: $17.99 Nice collection of essays on ethnography/geography and the senses. More great work by Steven Feld and others.
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 | Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.93 Any inquiry into the senses should take the work of Varela and Maturana into consideration.
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 | The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Thompson
Buy new: $40.42 / Used from: $8.50 City acoustics and the modernist project. The commodification of sound and silence. Engagingly written.
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| Speaking in Tongues: Cross-cultural Study of Glossolalia by Felicitas D. Goodman
Buy used from: $18.00 As the title states, a cross cultural study of speaking in tongues.
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 | Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era by Lisa Gitelman
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $15.00 The inscription of voice, its history and the morphology of phonography's intent.
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 | Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $13.18 |
 | The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations)
Buy new: $30.17 / Used from: $18.50 A well put together reader. Recommended for students of sound art, cultural theory, and everyone else.
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