Aural Cultures
	Jim Drobnick, editor Toronto & Banff: YYZ Books & Walter Phillips Gallery Editions, 2004, 288 pp. + CD ISBN: 0-920397-80-8 http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/books

Sounds resonate in nearly every social activity – from symphonic concerts and ritual chants to cacophonous revelries and respectful silences. These acoustic situations do more than reflect cultural sensibility, they create it as a living presence. Aural Cultures is a comprehensive collection of essays and artists’ projects that examines sound in art and contemporary culture. The authors come from a diversity of fields including communication studies, performance, anthropology, art history, cinema studies, literature, and philosophy. A CD of sound art recordings by renowned international and Canadian artists such as Christian Marclay, Shirin Neshat, Daniel Olson, and Santiago Sierra accompanies the publication.

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