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Mansell James G. |
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The Age of Noise in Britain : Hearing Modernity / / James G. Mansell |
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Urbana, Chicaggo, Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 pages) |
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Collana |
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Studies in sensory history |
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Soggetti |
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Noise - Health aspects - Great Britain - History |
Noise control - Great Britain - History |
City noise - Great Britain - History |
Industrial noise - Great Britain - History |
Noise - Great Britain - Social aspects - History |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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 warfare, the feeling of living in topsy-turvy times arrived via the ear. Yet historians have not listened to the sounds of early twentieth-century Britain nor unravelled what it meant to live in an 'age of noise'. This work turns a critical ear to the 'ways of hearing' operating in Britain between 1914 and 1945 and argues that attempts to shape encounters with everyday sound were expressive of hopes and |
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