Main entry:

Bull, Michael, 1952-

Title & Author:

Sounding out the city : personal stereos and the management of everyday life / Michael Bull.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.

Description:

vii, 208 pages ; 25 cm

Series:

Materializing culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.
1. Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life: An Introduction. 2. The World of Personal-Stereo Users: An Introduction -- pt. I. Personal-Stereo Use and the Management of Space, Place and Time. 3. Reconfiguring the 'Site' and 'Horizon' of Experience. 4. Personal Stereos and the Management of Cognitive Contingency. 5. The Re-appropriation of Time in Everyday Life -- pt. II. An Ethnography of Auditory Looking, Aesthetics and Interpersonal Urban Relations. 6. Empowering the 'Gaze': Personal Stereos and the Hidden Look. 7. Filmic Cities and Aesthetic Experience. 8. The Asymmetrical Urban: The Role of Personal Stereos in Managing Interpersonal Behaviour -- pt. III. Personal Stereos and a Critical Theory of Urban Everyday Life. 9. Sounding Out the City: An Auditory Epistemology of Urban Experience. 10. Visual Theories of City Life and Personal-Stereo Use. 11. Technology and the Management of Everyday Life. 12. Aestheticizing Everyday Life: A Critique. 13. Conclusion.

Summary:

Analysis of the meaning of Walkman use in the everyday life of users.

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ISBN:

1859733379
9781859733370
1859733425 (pbk.)
9781859733424 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cassette tape recorders Social aspects.
Technology Social aspects.
Radio broadcasting Social aspects.
Music as recreation.
Magnétophones à cassettes Aspect social.
Radio Aspect social.
Musique (Loisirs)
Walkmans.
Stadscultuur.
Ruimtegebruik.
Individu en samenleving.
Sociology, Urban.

Added entries:

Materializing culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260526
Call No.: BIB 191436
Status: Available