Low End Theory

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There's much here that gives a compelling and productive slant on one of the most contested areas of contemporary audio culture. * The Wire * Low End Theory is a fascinating study ... An interesting and thoughtful addition to the greater discussion of sound materiality, and will serve as excellent graduate level reading for ethnomusicologists, folklorists and anthropologists alike. * Dancecult * Low End Theory is an extremely broad-ranging book that refreshingly challenges the divisions between the humanities and sciences in terms of our understanding of sound, stretching this understanding from a wide-ranging interdisciplinary base. The core chapters represent a tour de force analysis of sound, body and experience that is both exhilarating and challenging. The reader will feel that they are racing through a stimulating sonic haze picking up wonderful nuggets of sonic knowledge on the way. * Michael Bull, Professor of Sound Studies, University of Sussex, UK * A pioneering study of the murky world of bass that enlists speculative concepts to reveal the vibrational practices at work in ritual, science and in the underbelly of pop. Low End Theory contributes to a growing literature which recognises, tracks and encourages the perpetual reconstruction the sonic body. * Steve Goodman, Independent Scholar, UK, author of Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (2010) and Founder of record label Hyperdub * We live in a world of vibrations. Sound envelops us, moves us, caresses or assaults us-especially in the lower frequencies that we cannot hear directly. In Low End Theory, Paul Jasen provides us with an ontology of bass. He works through the many ways-natural, social, and technological-that subsonic frequencies haunt us, affect us, and change us. * Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, USA * "...a rewarding read...By now widely travelled and well-thumbed, my copy of Low End Theory obviously affected me more than many other books I have recently read... * Oliver Seibt, Musicae Scientiae *