Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life
Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life
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探寻城市：个人音响与日常生活管理
DOI：
10.5860/choice.38-5633
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
M. Bull
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作者：
M. Bull
在过去的十多年里，在公共汽车、火车和街道上，尤其是年轻人，但越来越多的老年人也会打开他们的个人音响，不听城市的声音。为什么?个人立体声对这些人以及更普遍的城市文化意味着什么？它是否突出了现实？使人们能够应付？隔离?创造一个空间？战斗无聊吗?个人立体声太过普通和持久，以至于不能被视为一种时尚配饰，它已经成为象征当代城市生活的有力人工制品。这本书开辟了城市研究的一个新领域，即自我和场所的听觉体验。在这样做的过程中，它增强了我们对媒体和技术在日常生活中的作用的理解。城市、文化和人类学研究一直被利用视觉概念解释经验所主导。但文化中总是有听觉的成分，影响着人们的态度和行为——也许没有什么地方比声音被强化的城市更能体现这一点。这本书通过对个人立体声使用的民族志分析，提出对行为的听觉理解，挑战了严格的视觉文化方法。作者重新阐述了人们如何通过感官来协商城市的中心体验，如空间、地点、时间和日常体验的管理，并审视了技术所起的关键作用。这本书将感兴趣的任何人寻求一个新的和深刻的方法来城市研究，文化研究，人类学，社会学，或媒体和传播研究。
On buses, trains, and streets over the past decade and more, youths in particular but increasingly older people as well tune into their personal stereos and tune out city sounds. Why? What does the personal stereo mean to these people and to urban culture more generally? Does it heighten reality? Enable people to cope? Isolate? Create a space? Combat boredom? Far too commonplace and enduring to be considered a fashion accessory, the personal stereo has become a potent artefact symbolizing contemporary urban life. This book opens up a new area of urban studies, the auditory experience of self and place. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of the role of media and technology in everyday life. Urban, cultural and anthropological studies have been dominated by explanations of experiences drawing upon notions of visuality. But culture always has an auditory component that shapes attitudes and behaviour -- perhaps nowhere more so than in the city where sound is intensified. This book challenges strictly visual approaches to culture by proposing an auditory understanding of behaviour through an ethnographic analysis of personal stereo use. The author reformulates our understanding of how people, through the senses, negotiate central experiences of the urban, such as space, place, time and the management of everyday experience, and examines the critical role technology plays. This book will be of interest to anyone seeking a fresh and incisive approach to urban studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, or media and communication studies.