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CAR SOUND CULTURE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Main- car culture This is the speculative bibliography for the car culture essay
Music & Dance
Musicals, movies and songs from the mid century that utilize car sounds and culture.
Erik Satie, Parade (Sirens) 1)
Shahryar Nashat's version of Parade (which includes many parts of An American in Paris? as well?
Béla Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin 2)
George Gershwin: An American in Paris 3)
Jeffrey Plett, Offensive Driving 4) 5)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Theme Song 6)
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) 7) 8)
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
Instruments
Bart Hopkin Musical Siren11), Savarts Wheel 12)
Luigi Russolo Italian futurist painter and instrument maker who in 1913 made the Intonarumori 13)
Luigi Russolo's Essay The Art of Noises 14)
Historic Horns that match the 1929 recording at LA Percussion Rentals 15)
Modern Taxi Horns for An American in Paris 16)
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 Collection17), 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?
Sound Design
Categorization of engine sound ' 'right sound for right car'. Thus, customers' favorite sound should be analysed'18)
Active design of automotive engine sound 'active sound control' 19)
Development and Sound Design of an Electric Sports Car 20)
creating a sports sound by adaptation of the exhaust manifold and the downpipe 21)
Theory
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening
Articles & culture writing
Scholarly work on the subject
Toward a Cultural History of Car sound(s) 22)
Daniel Miller Car Cultures 23)
Automobility and the Power of Sound, sound listening and experience in cars 24)
NOTES
7)
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.
9)
Scene with horns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAfu6PNDbM
10)
whole musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZGdSurN_8
