The Sound inside the Silence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Silence Awaiting Sound: The Space of the Imagination

   • Seán Street

   Pages 1-19

3. Fencing the Horizon: Sound as Imaginative Event

   • Seán Street

   Pages 21-40

4. The Sounds the Ghosts Knew: Imaginative Remembering of the Past

   • Seán Street

   Pages 41-64

5. The Music of Where We Are: How Place Shapes Sound

   • Seán Street

   Pages 65-87

6. Through Storm and Stone: Radio, Sound and the Imagined World

   • Seán Street

   Pages 89-108

7. The Sounds of Shadows and Light: Science Fiction and the Supernatural

   • Seán Street

   Pages 109-131

8. Remembered Voices, Pictured Lives: The Sound of Recollection

   • Seán Street

   Pages 133-151

9. The Singing of Statues: How Art Sounds

   • Seán Street

   Pages 153-170

10. Writing Aloud: The Sound of Voice on Page and Social Screen

    • Seán Street

    Pages 171-189

11. Full of Noises: The Sound Map of Self

    • Seán Street

    Pages 191-212

12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-229

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In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Seán Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through time and space to the distant past, the infinite future and the shadow lands of the inner psyche. Our mind is a canvas on which the colours of the sound world leave permanent impressions. It is the root of all listening.

• Sound
• Silence
• Radio
• Sensory Studies
• Imaginative sound
• Sound Studies

“This, the third in Professor Seán Street’s series dedicated to Sound Poetics, is an erudite journey demonstrating the meaning and beauty of the scattered sounds of life. In an era of overwhelming noise and stimuli, this book proves how much intensity, potential and creative space there is in silence.” (Professor Grażyna Stachyra, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland)

“Intellectual clarity and a poetic, receptive ear for sound’s significance in our real and imagined worlds distinguish this captivating book. Highly original, it advances the literature on sound, radio, and attentive listening.” (Robyn Ravlich, writer and independent radio feature maker, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

“There is no more original thinker than Seán Street in considering the role of sound in our past, present and future, from absolute silence to the babble of broadcasting. The Sound inside the Silence invites us to consider sound as an event in itself that enhances our imagination, by extension confirming the importance of what we hear to the way we perceive and understand the world.” (Charlie Connelly, author of Attention All Shipping and Last Train to Hilversum)

• Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

  Seán Street

Seán Street is a writer, poet and broadcaster on the subject of radio history and aesthetics. The previous two books in this trilogy are Sound Poetics and Sound at the Edge of Perception, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. He is emeritus professor at Bournemouth University, UK.

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