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The Age of Noise in Britain : Hearing Modernity /

Early twentieth-century Britons thought that they were living in the 'age of noise,' sensing the historical changes going on around them as a series of disturbing shifts in the sonic atmosphere. From motorcar engines and wireless loudspeakers to the terrifying interruptions of mechanized w...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mansell, James G. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Modernity as crisis: noise and nerves
  • Re-enchanting modernity: techniques of magical sound
  • Creating the sonically rational: modern interventions in everyday aurality
  • National acoustics: total listening in the Second World War.