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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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2016.
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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.


