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Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th-century Europe / ed. by Daniel Morat

Morat, Daniel, 1973- [Hrsg.]

New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn, 2014

VIII, 344 S. : Ill.

Englisch

List of figures ; Introduction / Daniel Morat

Part I. Sound history in perspective ; Futures of hearing pasts / Mark M. Smith

Part II. Literature, science, and sound technologies in the 19th century ; English beat : the stethoscopic era's sonic traces / John M. Picker

The human telephone : physiology, neurology, and sound technologies / Anthony Enns

Part III. Sound objects as artifacts of attraction ; Listening to the horn : on the cultural history of the phonograph and the gramophone / Stefan Gauss

Phones, horns, and "audio hoods" as media of attraction : early sound histories in Vienna between 1883 and 1933 / Christine Ehardt

Part IV. Music listening in the laboratory and in the concert hall ; From the piano pestilence to the phonograph solo : four case studies of musical expertise in the laboratory and on the city street / Alexandra E. Hui

The invention of silence : audience behavior in Berlin and London in the nineteenth century / Sven Oliver Møller

Part V. The sounds of World War I ; Cheers, songs, and marching sounds : acoustic mobilization and collective affects at the beginning of World War I / Daniel Morat

Listening on the home front : music and the production of social meaning in German concert halls during World War I / Hansjakob Ziemer

Part VI. Auditory cultures in the interwar period ; In storms of steel : the soundscape of World War I and its impact on auditory media culture during the Weimar period / Axel Volmar

Sound aesthetics and the global imagination in German media culture around 1930 / Carolyn Birdsall

Neurasthenia, civilization and the sounds of modern life : narratives of nervous illness in the interwar campaign against noise / James Mansell

Part VII. The sounds of World War II ; The silence of Amsterdam before and during World War II : ecology, semiotics and politics of urban sound / Annelies jacobs

Literaturangaben

Digitalisierte Ausgabe: Morat, Daniel: Sounds of modern history$AGBV*797332561*

978-1-78238-421-2 (hardback : alkaline paper : ca. 120 €)

978-1-78238-422-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2014009648

9781782384212

OCoLC: 896871916     

OCoLC: 896871916 (aus SWB)     

NK 4950  | LR 57726  | LR 56666      Ähnliche Literatur

CB417

306.09409/034

Basisklassifikation: 24.46 (Musikalische Akustik) ; 24.50 (Historische Musikwissenschaft) ; 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte)

SSG-Nummer(n): 8

*Europa ; Klang ; Lärm ; Schallaufzeichnung ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Sound -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History ; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Europe -- History ; Hearing -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History ; Noise -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History ; Social change -- Europe -- History ; Europe -- Civilization -- 20th century ; Europe -- Social life and customs ; Europe -- Social conditions ; Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century

Europa ; Klang ; Lärm ; Schallaufzeichnung ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Aufsatzsammlung

"Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city"--Provided by publisher

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