Sound and noise : a listener's guide to everyday life /

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"This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define their daily lives in this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how au...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Epstein, Marcia Jenneth, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Noise.
Noise > Social aspects.
Noise > Psychological aspects.
Sound.
Hearing.
Listening.
Noise
Noise > prevention & control
Sound
Hearing
Bruit.
Bruit > Aspect social.
Écoute (Psychologie)
Son.
noise.
sound (acoustics)
SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound.
Listening
Noise > Psychological aspects
Noise > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Life without Earlids
  • Sound Science
  • Studying Sound
  • Thunder, Rooster, Hammer, Hum
  • Why Noise Annoys
  • The Hearing Body
  • The Mind's Ear
  • Born Loud
  • Growing Up Loud
  • Working with Noise
  • Quiet, Please: Noise Abatement
  • Power and Danger
  • The Cacophony of the Commons
  • Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Noise and the Law
  • Hearing and Healing: Soundscapes in Health Care
  • Creating a Culture of Listening
  • Tuning a Future.

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