ISBN:
9781441118905
,
144111890X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (223 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Senses of Vibration : A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Sound Psychological aspects
;
Sound Physiological effect
;
Vibration Physiological effect
;
Sound in literature
;
Sensory stimulation
;
Vibration
;
Sound Psychological aspects
;
Sound Physiological effect
;
Vibration
;
Sound in literature
;
Sensory stimulation
;
Vibration
;
Vibration Physiological effect
;
Sound Psychological aspects
;
Sound Physiological effect
;
Sound
;
Vibration
;
Literature
;
Noise
;
Psychological Phenomena and Processes
;
Sensory stimulation
;
Sound Physiological effect
;
Sound Psychological aspects
;
Sound in literature
;
Vibration Physiological effect
;
Vibration
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Kultur
;
Schallwelle
;
Schwingung
;
Wahrnehmung
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The study of the senses has become a rich topic in recent years. Senses of Vibration explores a wide range of sensory experience and makes a decisive new contribution to this growing field by focussing not simply on the senses as such, but on the material experience - vibration - that underpins them. This is the first book to take the theme of vibration as central, offering an interdisciplinary history of the phenomenon and its reverberations in the cultural imaginary. It tracks vibration through the work of a wide range of writers, including physiologists (who thought vibrations in the nerve
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Hearing Vibrations; 1 Nervous Motions; 2 Psychophysical Sensations and Spiritual Vibrations; 3 Wires, Rays and Radio Waves; 4 Pathological Motions: Railway Shock, Street Noises, Earthquakes; 5 Sexual Health: Sewing Machines, Bicycle Spine, the Vibrator; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index. - Print version record
,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index
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