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Hearing history : a reader / edited by Mark M. Smith.
Loaned to Another Library D16.116 .H43 2004
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aural history.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- Noise--Social aspects.
- Noise.
- Sound--Social aspects.
- Sound.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Onward to Audible Pasts / Mark M. Smith ix
- Part I Sound, Thinking
- 1 Soundscapes and Earwitnesses / R. Murray Schafer 3
- 2 Listening / Jacques Attali 10
- 3 Breaking the Sound Barrier / Peter Bailey 23
- 4 Art and Sound / Douglas Kahn 36
- 5 On Noise / Hillel Schwartz 51
- 6 Sound and the Self / Steven Connor 54
- Part II Sounds European
- 7 Perceiving Sound in the Middle Ages / Charles Burnett 69
- 8 The Soundscapes of Early Modern England / Bruce R. Smith 85
- 9 Hearing Renaissance England / D. R. Woolf 112
- 10 English Theories of Hearing in the Seventeenth Century / Penelope Gouk 136
- 11 Having the Doctor's Ear in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh / Malcolm Nicolson 151
- 12 Listening and Silence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France / James H. Johnson 169
- 13 Identity, Bells, and the Nineteenth-Century French Village / Alain Corbin 184
- Part III Sounds American
- 14 Acoustics and Social Order in Early America / Richard Cullen Rath 207
- 15 Sound Christians and Religious Hearing in Englightenment America / Leigh Eric Schmidt 221
- 16 Listening to Southern Slavery / Shane White, Graham White 247
- 17 Sight, Sound, and Tactics in the American Civil War / Charles D. Ross 267
- 18 Recording Sound, Recording Race, Recording Property / Lisa Gitelman 279
- 19 Preserving Sound in Modern America / Jonathan Sterne 295
- 20 American Noise, 1900-1930 / Raymond W. Smilor 319
- 21 Shaping the Sound of Modernity / Emily Thompson 331
- Coda: Talking Sound History / Mark M. Smith, Mitchell Snay, Bruce R. Smith 365.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-407) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820325821
- 082032583X
- OCLC:
- 53887525
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