The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082233013X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Sterne’s prose moves gracefully and nimbly beneath the academic robesand the topic is so intimately connected to the way we experience the world around us that it can’t help resonating. Forget what you think you know about ours being a visual culture, in which sight is the privileged sense." - Ruth Walker, Christian Science Monitor
It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers, doctors and patients, deaf children and their teachers, professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a historical labyrinth. The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. The Audible Past tracks the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity: from dev
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