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The Age of Electroacoustics : Transforming Science and Sound /

"At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentieth century, acoustics had undergone a transformation from a scientific field based on the understanding of classical music t...

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Autor principal: Wittje, Roland (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : a history and geography of acoustics
  • The electrification of sound : from high culture to electropolis
  • Science goes to war : warfare and the industrialization of acoustics
  • Between science and engineering, academia and industry : acoustics in the Weimar Republic
  • Acoustics goes back to war : mass mobilization and remilitarization of acoustics research
  • Conclusion : the new acoustics.