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technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century

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An edition of Mechanical sound (2008)

Mechanical sound

technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
350

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Subjects
History, Machinery, Noise, Noise control, Noise music, Noise pollution, Social aspects, Social aspects of Sound, Sound, History and criticism
Times
20th century

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Table of Contents

Listening to technology
Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound
A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise
Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior
The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music
A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors
A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index
A sound history of technological culture.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-314) and index.

Series
Inside technology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
620.2
Library of Congress
TD892 .B548 2008, TD892.B548 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 350 p. :
Number of pages
350

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16896902M
Internet Archive
mechanicalsoundt00bijs
ISBN 10
0262026392
ISBN 13
9780262026390
LCCN
2007037600
OCLC/WorldCat
171287704
Library Thing
8751581
Goodreads
6765867

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