Selling Sound: Testing, Designing, and Marketing Sound in the European Car Industry

The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cleophas, Eefje ^a   Bijsterveld, Karin ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automobile; Car manufacturing; Car sound; Sonic qualities; Sound design; Sound perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917249888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195388947.013.0027     Document Type: Chapter

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