Sound Poetics
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"Our all-too perfunctory understanding of terms and concepts like silence, voice, noise and listening is expanded immeasurably by Professor Seán Street's perceptive study of these states of being, and the fundamental and abiding role that sound plays in shaping our personal identities as human beings. Street can be commended for a book which manages to ground its richly philosophical and metaphysical observations on sound and listening with a concern with the demotic potentialities of broadcasting, and an awareness of what it means to be exposed to the man-made and mediated hubbub of noise in daily life (the proverbial 'ear to the ground'). A major contribution towards something overlooked (or unheard) in the humanities - an ethnography of listening." (Dr Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth University, UK)"Seán Street has written a masterpiece on the place for the poetic soul in radio and sound communication, art, and listening. 'Is there anyone there?' cried a character in the Walter De La Mare's poem 'The Listeners.' When reading 'Sound Poetics: Interaction and Personal Identity' you may well find an answer. Elegantly crafted prose conjures the emotions, intellect and human identity of sound poetics, reflecting on the philosophy and meaning of the connections between memory, sound, silence and story telling. This is a powerful interplay of interdisciplinary academic research and writing that is mellifluous rather than fevered, and leaves the reader with rich thoughts, ideas and sentiments." (Professor Tim Crook, Head of Radio, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
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