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Record Nr.

UNISA996217054103316

Titolo

Talking and listening in the age of modernity : essays on the history of sound / / edited by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-921313-48-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

302.2242

Soggetti

Oral communication - Social aspects - Australia

Auditory perception - Social aspects - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin's virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.