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City of noise : sound and nineteenth-century Paris /

"Nineteenth-century Paris was grand, busy, and overwhelmingly noisy, so noisy that the racket became a matter for public concern in Paris before any other city. There were not only more people in the growing metropolis, but more sources of sound, much of it sung, barked, or bellowed to sell mer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boutin, Aimée, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Studies in sensory history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Aural flânerie : the flâneur in the city as concert
  • Blason sonore : street cries in the city
  • Sonic classifications in Haussmann's Paris
  • Listening to the glazier's cry
  • "Cry louder, street crier" : peddling poetry and the avant-garde
  • Conclusion.