Music, Sound and Space

Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Formerly Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at the University of Cambridge, she is currently directing the international research programme 'Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies', funded by The European Research Council. Her publications include Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (1995), Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music (edited with D. Hesmondhalgh, 2000), Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2005) and the forthcoming Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences (edited with A. Barry).

1. Introduction - music, sound and space: transformations of public and private experience Georgina Born; Part I. The Design of Mediated Music and Sound: 2. Sound installation art: from spatial poetics to politics, aesthetics to ethics Gascia Ouzounian; 3. Music, space and subjectivity Eric F. Clarke; 4. What the mind's ear doesn't hear Jonathan Sterne; 5. Tuning the human race: athletic capitalism and the Nike+ sport kit Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek; Part II. Space, Sound and Affect in Everyday Lifeworlds: 6. Music and the construction of space in office-based work settings Nicola Dibben and Anneli B. Haake; 7. Broadcasting the body: the 'private' made 'public' in hospital soundscapes Tom Rice; 8. Islam, sound, and space: acoustemology and Muslim citizenship on the Kenyan coast Andrew J. Eisenberg; Part III. Music, Identity, Alterity and the Politics of Space: 9. Music inside out - sounding public religion in a post-secular Europe Philip V. Bohlman; 10. Classical music and the politics of space Nicholas Cook; 11. Civil twilight: country music, alcohol, and the spaces of Manitoban Aboriginal sociability Byron Dueck; Part IV. Music and Sound: Torture, Healing and Love: 12. Music space as healing space: community music therapy and the negotiation of identity in a mental health centre Tia DeNora; 13. Towards an acoustemology of detention in the 'global war on terror' Suzanne G. Cusick; 14. Faith, hope, and the hope of love: on the fidelity of the phonographic voice Richard Middleton.