Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

by Steve Goodman

Book Overview

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality--when sound helps produce a bad vibe.

Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread--to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the "psychoacoustic correction" aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or "sound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517957
• ISBN13: 9780262517959
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher