The Memory of Sound Preserving the Sonic Past [Paperback]

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the brain is triggered by the memory of programs, songs, and individual sounds. He then examines the growing importance of sound archives, community radio and current research using GPS technology for the history of place, as well as the potential for developing strategies to aid Alzheimer's and dementia patients through audio memory.

1. Introduction: Echoes and Shadows  2. Tell Me a Story  3. Radio: Feeding the Imagination  4. Father of the Man: Radio, Audio and Youth  5. Music Memory: Music in the Moment  6. Ourselves as History: An Encyclopaedia of Sounds  7. Walls Have Voices  8. Saving the Sound, Spreading the Word  9. Holding on to Sounds  10. The Future Sound of Memory  Appendix: Radio in the Context of Memory

Se?n Street's The Memory of Sound isa moving and poetic book about the act of creating and preserving audio memories. While other worthy books might focus on the technical aspects of audio production, this carefully constructed work serves as a celebration of international documentary makers who have devoted their lives to recording the memories and stories of others. Street's profound insights weave through every chapter in this masterful work, each a cherished ode to the documentation and preservation of sound. For that I thank him. -Dmae Roberts,Peabody Awardwinning Independent Public Radio producer

Se?nStreet manages to capture the invisible with words. This book is a beautiful and poetic investigation of the impact sounds lӥ