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Sound transformed not only the Hollywood film industry, but all of world cinema. This text examines how the arrival of sound brought a boom to the industry and why its social impact deepened in complexity.

Sound motion pictures --- Motion picture industry --- Moving-pictures, Talking --- Talkies --- Talking motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- History.

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In recent years birdsong has developed into an extremely interesting problem for researchers in several branches of the scientific community. The reason is that of the approximately 10,000 species of birds known to exist, some 4000 share with humans (and just a few other species in the animal kingdom) a remarkable feature: their acquisition of vocalization requires a certain degree of exposure to a tutor. Between the complex neural architecture involved in the process and the song itself, stands a delicate apparatus that the bird must control with incredible precision. This book deals with the physical mechanisms at work in the production of birdsong, the acoustic effects that the avian vocal organ is capable of generating, and the nature of the neural instructions needed to drive it. The book provides fascinating reading for physicists, biologists and general readers alike.

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Vocalization. --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Talking birds --- Neurobiology. --- Acoustics. --- Morphology (Animals). --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. --- Animal morphology --- Animals --- Body form in animals --- Zoology --- Morphology --- Neurosciences --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Animal anatomy. --- Animal anatomy --- Biology --- Physiology --- Biological physics --- Medical sciences --- Physics --- Anatomy

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With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the beautiful music that was the preserve of the wealthy became a mass-produced consumer good, cheap enough to be available to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in every home. America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound, first published in 2006, provides a history of sound recording from the first thin sheet of tinfoil that was manipulated into retaining sound to the home recordings of rappers in the 1980s and the high-tech studios of the 1990s. This book examines the important technical developments of acoustic, electric, and digital sound reproduction while outlining the cultural impact of recorded music and movies. This second edition updates the story, describing the digital revolution of sound recording with the rise of computers, Napster, DVD, MP3, and iPod.

Music --- Phonograph --- Sound recordings --- 534.85 --- 78 <73> --- 534.85 Sound recording and reproduction --- Sound recording and reproduction --- Gramophone --- Graphophone --- Record players --- Speaking-machines --- Talking-machines --- Sound --- 78 <73> Muziek--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Muziek--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- History and criticism --- Recording and reproducing --- Equipment and supplies --- Phonograph. --- History and criticism.

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Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill's acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930's, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the "imagery" and components of "language." The smallest element of this dialectic is the "growth point," a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.

Psycholinguistics --- Semiotics --- Gesture --- Language and languages --- Sign language --- Speech --- Thought and thinking --- #KVHA:Cognitieve linguïstiek --- #KVHA:Lichaamstaal --- #KVHA:Psycholinguïstiek --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Self --- Talking --- Oral communication --- Phonetics --- Voice --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Signs and symbols --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Linguistics --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Psychological aspects --- Gesture. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Thought and thinking. --- Speech. --- Sign language. --- Language and languages. --- Psycholinguistique --- gesturing, communication, conversation, linguistics, speech, language, lev vygotsky, thought, cognition, imagery, psycholinguistics, thinking, sign, age, gender, utterances, discourse, cognitive psychology, anthropology, kinetic, expression, embodiment, consciousness, dialectic, neurology, social context, function, mind and body, nonfiction. --- Cognition et langage --- Gestes