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Livre : Acoustic  Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life. Brandon LaBelle. Publisher: Continuum (April 1, 2010). ISBN-10: 1441161368. 304 pagesThis is a remarkable exploration of how sound permeates all aspects of  life - from the streets to our homes, and from shopping malls to the  underground. "Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life"  offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful  consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and  acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate  understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism,  popular culture and auditory issues, "Acoustic Territories" opens up  multiple perspectives - it challenges debates surrounding noise  pollution and charts an 'acoustic politics of space' by unfolding  auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and  related ideologies. Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a  topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through  to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods,  and finally to the sky itself.  This structure follows sound as it  appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various  cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through  everyday life as a medium for social transformation. "Acoustic  Territories" uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to  sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.About the AuthorBrandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound culture and  locational identities. His previous book, Background Noise:  Perspectives on Sound Art, was published in 2006 also by Continuum. He  is the editor of Errant Bodies Press and organizer of the related  Surface Tension project. He is currently Professor at the National  Academy of the Arts in Bergen, Norway.//