Whitney Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading sound: Textual Value Devices in Gallery Sound
As sound practices continue to evolve in the gallery arts, conceptual texts create value for audiences who have been trained to see but who are still learning to listen. Based on 105 semi-structured interviews and four years of ethnographic observation, this paper finds that, contrary to the reliance on hearing in music or vision in the other gallery arts, gallery sound has had to rely, paradoxically, on reading audiences. After a look at models …
The Emancipated Listener
An aesthetic controversy regarding the value of conceptual and ambient sound art opens this theoretical investigation into sensation, perception, and understanding. The contrast between valuing sound through language or listening calls on aesthetic philosophy and social phenomenology to transcend existing theories of perception that tend to be rooted in the sense of sight. Extending from the sensus communis, the phenomenology of expanded listenin…
Weird Music: Tension and Reconciliation in Cultural-Economic Knowledge
How do music venues reconcile competing desires for popularity and uniqueness in their bookings? According to 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the staff of licensed and unlicensed music venues, gatekeepers tended to prefer 'weird' music in terms of unconventionality and even obscurity rather than focusing on cultural similarity through genre conventions. Respondents described at least three ways to reconcile this internal tension of c…
Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
Weird Music: Tension and Reconciliation in Cultural-Economic Knowledge
How do music venues reconcile competing desires for popularity and uniqueness in their bookings? According to 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the staff of licensed and unlicensed music venues, gatekeepers tended to prefer 'weird' music in terms of unconventionality and even obscurity rather than focusing on cultural similarity through genre conventions. Respondents described at least three ways to reconcile this internal tension of c…
Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
Weird Music: Tension and Reconciliation in Cultural-Economic Knowledge
How do music venues reconcile competing desires for popularity and uniqueness in their bookings? According to 25 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the staff of licensed and unlicensed music venues, gatekeepers tended to prefer 'weird' music in terms of unconventionality and even obscurity rather than focusing on cultural similarity through genre conventions. Respondents described at least three ways to reconcile this internal tension of c…
The Emancipated Listener
An aesthetic controversy regarding the value of conceptual and ambient sound art opens this theoretical investigation into sensation, perception, and understanding. The contrast between valuing sound through language or listening calls on aesthetic philosophy and social phenomenology to transcend existing theories of perception that tend to be rooted in the sense of sight. Extending from the sensus communis, the phenomenology of expanded listenin…
Reading sound: Textual Value Devices in Gallery Sound
As sound practices continue to evolve in the gallery arts, conceptual texts create value for audiences who have been trained to see but who are still learning to listen. Based on 105 semi-structured interviews and four years of ethnographic observation, this paper finds that, contrary to the reliance on hearing in music or vision in the other gallery arts, gallery sound has had to rely, paradoxically, on reading audiences. After a look at models …
Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Active listening (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Classical economics (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works)