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Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th- century Europe /

"Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morat, Daniel, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of figures
  • Introduction / Daniel Morat
  • Part I. Sound history in perspective
  • Futures of hearing pasts / Mark M. Smith
  • Part II. Literature, science, and sound technologies in the 19th century
  • English beat : the stethoscopic era's sonic traces / John M. Picker
  • The human telephone : physiology, neurology, and sound technologies / Anthony Enns
  • Part III. Sound objects as artifacts of attraction
  • Listening to the horn : on the cultural history of the phonograph and the gramophone / Stefan Gauss
  • Phones, horns, and "audio hoods" as media of attraction : early sound histories in Vienna between 1883 and 1933 / Christine Ehardt
  • Part IV. Music listening in the laboratory and in the concert hall
  • From the piano pestilence to the phonograph solo : four case studies of musical expertise in the laboratory and on the city street / Alexandra E. Hui
  • The invention of silence : audience behavior in Berlin and London in the nineteenth century / Sven Oliver Møller
  • Part V. The sounds of World War I
  • Cheers, songs, and marching sounds : acoustic mobilization and collective affects at the beginning of World War I / Daniel Morat
  • Listening on the home front : music and the production of social meaning in German concert halls during World War I / Hansjakob Ziemer
  • Part VI. Auditory cultures in the interwar period
  • In storms of steel : the soundscape of World War I and its impact on auditory media culture during the Weimar period / Axel Volmar
  • Sound aesthetics and the global imagination in German media culture around 1930 / Carolyn Birdsall
  • Neurasthenia, civilization and the sounds of modern life : narratives of nervous illness in the interwar campaign against noise / James Mansell
  • Part VII. The sounds of World War II
  • The silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II : ecology, semiotics and politics of urban sound / Annelies jacobs
  • Notes on contributors.