{"product_id":"9798765136232","title":"Listening on Display Exhibiting Sounding Artworks, 1960s to the Present","description":"\u003ch1\u003eListening on Display\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eExhibiting Sounding Artworks, 1960s to the Present\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLinnea Semmerling\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ Museum Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening on Display\u003c\/i\u003e provides an empirical investigation of the historically, culturally, and socially contingent ways in which artists, curators, and visitors relate to sounds in contemporary art exhibitions. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSounding artworks have appeared regularly in contemporary art exhibitions since the 1960s, yet scholars of art history, musicology, sound studies, and museum studies have long noted the experiential difficulties this development poses. They describe how sounds challenge the sensory hierarchy of the museum, how they disrupt the venerable silence of the white cube, or how they drown in the ambient noise of galleries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the listening experiences of artists, visitors, curators, and technicians in more than twenty exhibitions that have taken place at contemporary art museums, alternative art spaces, and other venues in Germany and the United States since the 1960s. Through archival research, visitor book analysis, interviews, and observations drawing on sensory ethnography, Semmerling brings together their ideas and ideals about aesthetic ambitions, sensory abilities, cultural conventions, and technological standards. In doing so, this book lays the groundwork for rethinking sound in exhibition spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinnea Semmerling \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in Sound Studies and Sound Art at Leiden \u003cbr\u003eUniversity, Netherlands, and Director of the Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute, Germany. \u003cbr\u003eShe worked as associate editor on \u003ci\u003eSound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and recently \u003cbr\u003eco-edited books about punk media history (2023) and electronic composer Conrad \u003cbr\u003eSchnitzler (2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e05 February 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765136232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.96\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53976192876684,"sku":"9798765136232","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_2669ca24-da69-419d-a4e9-33f1b106002c.jpg?v=1787715196","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798765136232","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}