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Acoustic environments in change: Preface -- Acoustic environments in change - introducing the study of six European village soundscapes in transition / Helmi Järviluoma, Heikki Uimonen, Noora Vikman & Meri Kytö -- Soundscape studies and auditory cognition / Heikki Uimonen -- Changing soundscapes of Cembra village ; Silence depends on muscle power - an ethnographic pilgrimage into a cultural interruption ; Soundscape shutters - rhythmicity and cultural interruptions in the soundscape ; On the mountains, from the mountains, to the mountains - polyphonic pasts, spaces and places of singing in a North Italian village Cembra / Noora Vikman -- Soundscape and social memory in Skruv ; The scythe-driven nostalgia - agricultural ambiences in Bissingen ; Lesconil, my home - memories of listening / Helmi Järviluoma -- Stories of sound - the narrated past of the Scottish village / Heikki Uimonen -- 'Putt putt' and 'mur' - old inboard engine and nostalgia -- Soundscapes in change - from 1975 to 2000 / / Helmi Järviluoma, Heikki Uimonen, Noora Vikman & Meri Kytö. Five village soundscapes: Introduction to Five village soundscapes (1977) / Barry Truax -- Introduction ; The five villages ; Soundscape character ; Acoustic rhythms and densities ; Acoustic materials (water and stone) ; Acoustic definition ; Community attitudes to the soundscape ; Conclusion ; Five village soundscapes - CD program notes ; Acoustic environments in change - CD program notes ; Index

The first part of this publication with its twelve articles takes you to six European places, five of wich were visited by the world Soundscape Project in the mid-1970s. The second part is a re-publication of the World Soundscapes Project's study Five Village Soundscapes (cop. 1977). This allowes a longitudinal comparison over 25 years of community soundscapes in transition.