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Title Sonic experience : a guide to everyday sounds / edited by Jean-François Augoyard and Henry Torgue ; translated by Andrea McCartney and David Paquette.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 216 pages : illustrations))
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Translation of: A l'écoute de l'environnement.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.
Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Sonic Effects -- Thematic listing -- Alphabetical listing -- Foreword -- Translators Note -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Guide to Sonic Effects -- Notes -- Thematic Reading List -- Bibliography.
Summary Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners.
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Subject Sound -- Psychological aspects.
Sound -- Psychological aspects.
Sound -- Dictionaries.
Sound.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Augoyard, Jean François, 1941-
McCartney, Andra.
Torgue, Henry.
Paquette, David.
Other Form: Print version: 0773525483 9780773525481
ISBN 9780773576919 (electronic book)
0773576916 (electronic book)
1282867350
9781282867352
0773525483 (bound)
9780773525481 (bound)
077352942X (paperback)
9780773529427 (paperback)