A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds. --New York Times

A professor of acoustic engineering provides a tour of the world's most amazing sound phenomena, including creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite o

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from p

In this two-volume Handbook, contributors address the tendency to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance techniq

Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how black artists--including well-known figures such as writers Ralph Ellison