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Sound in the age of mechanical reproduction /

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Strasser, Susan; Suisman, David
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2010]
©2010
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Hagley perspectives on business and culture
Subjects:
Economic history > 20th century
Hearing > History > 20th century.
Listening > History > 20th century.
Mechanization > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > History > 20th century.
Radio > History > 20th century.
Social history > 20th century.
Sound > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Sound > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Sound > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
Global History.
History.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206869
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Summary: Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 13 illus.
ISBN: 9780812206869
Index Number: HN16
CLC: G119
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense /
Chapter 1: Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s /
Chapter 2: Her Voice a Bullet Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II /
Chapter 3: Savage Dissonance Gender, Voice, and Women s Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930 1945 /
Chapter 4: Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930 1952 /
Chapter 5: High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950 1961 /
Chapter 6: Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II /
Chapter 7: An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s /
Chapter 8: The People s Orchestra Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s /
Chapter 9: Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio /
Chapter 10: The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States /
Notes --
Contributors --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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