Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.
Author(s): Annika Eisenberg
Series: Literary Urban Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Praise for Navigating Urban Soundscapes
Contents
Introduction
References
Mediated Sound
Layers
Conceptual Metaphors
References
Tunement: Listening to Listening
Listen, Marlowe
Monkey Music
References
Urban Sonar
Wayfinding in the Concrete Jungle
Eavesdropping
Sonic Shelter
References
Teeming with Traffic
Pedestrian Pings
Motorised Wayfinding
Noise Music Silence
References
Crowded Voices
Babble of Voices
An Urban Sonic Sublime
Raised Voices
References
Aquacities
Water Has a Hundred Voices
Shut Your Eyes and Sea
Siren City
References
Conclusion: Rewind–Fast Forward
References
Index
