The Sonic Surrogate : Music, Technology, and the Crisis of Reproduction
Book Details
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
Ksh 4,500.00
Not Yet Published
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
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.
Get The Sonic Surrogate by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by University of California Press and it has pages.
