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CAR SOUND CULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHY

This is the speculative bibliography for the car culture essay

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Scholarly work on the subject

Karin Bijsterveld, Listening to Machines: Industrial Noise, Hearing Loss and the Cultural Meaning of Sound, Sound Studies Reader
Karin Bijsterveld, “Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind.” The Senses and Society 5, no. 2 (2010): 189–211.
Stefan Krebs, Toward a Cultural History of Car sound(s) 1)
Daniel Miller Car Cultures 2)
Michael Bull, Automobility and the Power of Sound, sound listening and experience in cars 3)
Josh Kun Audiotopia, Music, Race, and America. Goes over Car Culture in Los Angeles 4)
Tomie Hahn, It's the Rush, Sites of the Sentually Extreme. Discusses monster truck culture, including in respects to how they sound 5)

Sound Design

Categorization of engine sound ' 'right sound for right car'. Thus, customers' favorite sound should be analysed'6)
Active design of automotive engine sound 'active sound control' 7)
Development and Sound Design of an Electric Sports Car 8)
creating a sports sound by adaptation of the exhaust manifold and the downpipe 9)

Theory

Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening
Natasha Lushetich, Fluxus The Practice of Non-Duality

News Articles & Culture Writing

EXAMPLES

Music & Dance

Musicals, movies and songs from the mid century that utilize car sounds and culture.
Erik Satie, Parade (Sirens) 10)
Shahryar Nashat's version of Parade (which includes many parts of An American in Paris? as well?
Béla Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin 11)
George Gershwin: An American in Paris 12)
Jeffrey Plett, Offensive Driving 13) 14)
Celia Hollander, Air Out 15)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Theme Song 16)

Film

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (this film has almost everything im looking for)
Speed Racer (cartoon series, lots of whacky folly sounds)
Cars (disney film, how do they construct sound???)
Fast and the Furious series (and their decline into fantasy)
Genevieve
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Baby Driver (2017) 17) 18)
Thunder Road (1958)
Vanishing Point (1971) (speculative)
Ford v. Ferrari (speculative)
The 5th Element (creates a dark future that still has cars, what do they sound like?)
Taxi Driver (1976) (speculative)

Car based horror
Christine (1983)
The Car (1977) Horror
The Hitchhiker (1953)

Comedy
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) (speculative, likely has a humorous inclusion of racing sound )
The Hot Rock (1972) Notable for its lack of a car getaway scene, calling comedy into the situation

Video Games

My Summer Car
Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game
BeamNG Drive (extreme car customization, likely involves engine sound too)
Wrench (racing game, again with extreme customization options)
Grand Theft Auto series (there has to be something in these about car sounds)
Grand Tarismo Series (run of the mill racing games, but claim to have hyper realistic real world cars)

Mario Kart (note how children's games make vehicles sound)
Wipeout series (distant idealistic future racing with extrema scifi sounds)
Simpsons hit and run (speculative)

Musicals

Company 19) 20)

Instruments

Bart Hopkin Musical Siren21), Savarts Wheel 22)
Luigi Russolo Italian futurist painter and instrument maker who in 1913 made the Intonarumori 23)
Luigi Russolo's Essay The Art of Noises 24)
Historic Horns that match the 1929 recording at LA Percussion Rentals 25)
Modern Taxi Horns for An American in Paris 26)
According to LA Percussion rentals a full set of Taxi Horns are tuned from C4-C6, this should represent a good representation of the expected scope of their pitch range.
Investigate further into the historic car horn collection at the Nethercutt Collection27), this likely represents a good sample of the types, scope and presentation of car horns from the first half of the 1900s
In which ways were Klaxon (Ahooga) Horns used?

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Waitt, Gordon, et al. “'Let’s Have Some Music’: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility.” Mobilities, vol. 12, no. 3, 2017, pp. 324–42. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2015.1076628.

Cleophas, Eefje, and Karin Bijsterveld. “Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry.” The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 102–24. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ram&AN=A941494&site=ehost-live.

NOTES

perfect pitch and knowledge of cars and identification
Katakis noise
audio culture anthology
low rider culture (chino studies)
google scholar *without music*
rosalilla moto mami album

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That crucial connection between cars and music has certainly been explored by other filmmakers over the years, but Wright takes things further: He finds in the protagonist’s primal connection to cars and music a poignant symbol for his emotional isolation, his need to hold the world at bay.