The Age of Noise in Britain : Hearing Modernity / / James G. Mansell

• Autore: Mansell James G.
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, Chicaggo, Springfield, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.74094
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 fears for modernity.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Age of Noise in Britain
• ISBN: 9780252099113; 0252099117
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162736703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in sensory history.