Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century /
'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are reg...
| Основен автор: | Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Inside technology.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Mechanical sound. |
Съдържание:
- Listening to technology
- Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound
- A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise
- Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior
- The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music
- A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors
- A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index
- A sound history of technological culture.