The Sonic Surrogate : Music, Technology, and the Crisis of Reproduction

Name: The Sonic Surrogate
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520433656
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9780520433656

by Marie Thompson

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media

ISBN-10 0520433653

ISBN-13 9780520433656

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 10th, 2026

Print length 285 Pages

Product Classification: Music Theory of music & musicology Theory of music and musicology Media studies Feminism and feminist theory Media studies Feminism & feminist theory Acoustic & sound engineering Acoustic and sound engineering

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Interrogating the proliferation of audio apps, smart speakers, sleep aids, and prenatal sound systems that promise a better life through sound, this book explores how these technologies came to be promoted as a cheap solution for capitalism’s inevitable crisis of reproduction. Marie Thompson shows how—at a time when, for many, accessing and providing care are increasingly under pressure—sound and music are sold as tools to support caregiving, childrearing, domestic management, and pregnancy. Connecting this phenomenon to shifting gendered, racial, and global divisions of labor, the making of the modern family, the changing political economy of music, and evolving discourses of automation, The Sonic Surrogate sheds light on the many reproductions implicated in sound reproduction.

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