| | Cultural Analysis, Volume 1, 2000: The Pleasures of the Ear/Regina Bendix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Central to Bendix's discussion is a strong sense of the immediacy of sound; she argues that the acoustic is "a great deal less subject to
social ordering than are other, more visible sensual experiences," a position shared by other scholars writing about the phenomenology of sound. |
 | | Bendix makes audible an internal conundrum, which many of us have noted in our own work and that of others; the pleasures that bring us to, and keep us, in a field often remain marginal and mute in our own writing. |
 | | Bendix connects this conundrum to a third striking observation—the slow and slaunchwise movement towards the pleasures of performance, auditory and otherwise, which has centrally informed the ethnography of communication but has not been fully realized within it. |
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