[PDF.47lr] The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900--1933 (MIT Press)

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900--1933 (MIT Press)

[PDF.ds71] The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900--1933 (MIT Press)

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 | #848974 in Books |  2004-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.13 x8.00l,2.35 | File type: PDF | 510 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Impacts of the ideals of modernity|By Joe|Thompson focuses on the role of modernist tendencies in the construction and commodification of the auditory culture of America in the early twentieth century. She looks not only at the science of architectural acoustics but their linkage to the new recording technologies and general changes in the aural landscape of New York and elsew|From Publishers Weekly|In a pioneering study of America's culture of listening, University of Pennsylvania professor of the history and sociology of science Emily Thompson depicts a culture busily rationalizing, quantifying and taming sound in The Soundscape of

In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound that was the product of modern technology. They listened as newly critical consumers of aural commodities. By examining the technologies that produced this sound, as well as the culture that enthusiastically consumed it, Thompson recovers a lost dimension of the Machine A...

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