Description: Alien Listening Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth by Daniel K.L. Chua, Alexander Rehding Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description An examination of NASAs Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts contained world music and sounds of Earth to represent humanity to any extraterrestrial civilisations. To date, the Golden Record is the only human-made object to have left the solar system. Alien Listening asks the big questions that the Golden Record raises: Can music live up to its reputation as the universal language in communications with the unknown? How do we fit all of human culture into a time capsule that will barrel through space for tens of thousands of years? And last but not least: Do aliens have ears?The stakes could hardly be greater. Around the extreme scenario of the Golden Record, Chua and Rehding develop a thought-provoking, philosophically heterodox, and often humorous Intergalactic Music Theory of Everything, a string theory of communication, an object-oriented ontology of sound, and a Penelopean model woven together from strands of music and media theory. The significance of this exomusicology, like that of the Golden Record, ultimately takes us back to Earth and its denizens. By confronting the vast temporal and spatial distances the Golden Record traverses, the authors take listeners out of their comfort zone and offer new perspectives in which music can be analysed, listened to, and thought about - by aliens and humans alike. Author Biography Daniel K. L. Chua is Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts and Chair Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Beethoven & Freedom, Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning, and The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven. Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is the author of Beethovens Symphony No. 9, Music and Monumentality, and Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought. Details ISBN 1942130538 ISBN-13 9781942130536 Title Alien Listening Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth Author Daniel K.L. Chua, Alexander Rehding Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 272 Publisher Zone Books GE_Item_ID:133121824; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781942130536
Book Title: Alien Listening Voyagers Golden Record and Music from Earth
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Alien Listening : Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth
Publisher: ZONE Books
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, General, Space Science
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, Social Science, Science
Author: Alexander Rehding, Daniel K. L. Chua
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover