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Autore: | Bijsterveld Karin <1961-> |
Titolo: | Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century / / Karin Bijsterveld |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 350 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 620.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Noise pollution |
Sound - Social aspects - History - 20th century | |
Machinery - Noise | |
Noise control | |
Noise music | |
Soggetto non controllato: | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology | |
ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | '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 regulated by experts and governments. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Mechanical sound |
ISBN: | 0-262-26854-X |
1-4356-5494-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819123203321 |
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