{"product_id":"9780228021391-city-symphonies","title":"City Symphonies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSound and the Composition of Urban Modernity, 1913–1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the unheard sonic dimensions of the city symphony. Instead of looking at the city symphony as a narrowly defined silent film genre, it turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema and that treats the city as a sonic medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCinema scholars categorize city symphony films of the 1920s and early 1930s as a subgenre of the silent film. Defined in visual terms, the city symphony organizes the visible elements of urban experience according to musical principles such as rhythm and counterpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCity Symphonies\u003c\/em\u003e Daniel Schwartz explores the unheard sonic dimensions of these ostensibly silent films. The book turns its ear to the city symphony as an audible phenomenon, one that encompasses a multitude of works beyond the cinema, such as musical compositions, mass spectacles, radio experiments, and even paintings. What these works have in common is their treatment of the city as a medium for sound. The city is neither background nor content; rather, it is the material through which avant-garde works express themselves. In resonating through the city, these multimedia pieces perform experiments that undermine the borders between sight and sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApplying an interdisciplinary approach, \u003cem\u003eCity Symphonies\u003c\/em\u003e expands our understanding of the genre, breaking out of the confines of the cinema and onto the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55110058770806,"sku":"9780228021391","price":96.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40584271_8380f2ff-6efa-4234-8c1d-ac7a355cbb43.jpg?v=1775098944","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228021391-city-symphonies","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}