This thesis examines a cultural interest in loud sound as a productive force between 1880 and 1930. Recent historical scholarship on sound at the turn of the 20th century has given substantial attention to noise abatement movements and their efforts to control public space. In shifting the focus towards a significant collection of people interested in the generative aspects of sonic power and its ability to paralyze the body, empty the mind and even threaten life is to suggest ways in which idealist or utopian hopes were interlaced with an idea of sonic agency. This thesis looks at three aspects of the megaphonic: firstly, the push to build the world's loudest instrument, a pipe organ; secondly, the proliferation of powerful fog-signalling ...
Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important o...
The problem of city soundscape has always been topic of a lot of researches and discu...
How did the technological ability to manipulate the sounds of weapons affect warfare in Europe durin...
New technologies profoundly change our sonic surroundings, the world's soundscape. However, research...
Sound ‘does’ things to places, to people and to time: it can affect change. This collection focuses ...
The doctoral thesis "Discourse and know-how on urban sonic environment planning in the 19th century"...
The purpose of this paper is to provide some historical perspective on the so-called loudness war. C...
This dissertation examines the intellectual and cultural reception of the phonograph at the turn of ...
© 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Sound transforme...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Sound effects increased in nu...
International audienceCultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents...
Regularity. Continuity. Consistency. Perpetually. Mechanized sound has characteristics, which are fu...
In this chapter I develop the psychological underpinnings of environmental music towards an understa...
Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical...
Building upon recent innovations in the study of auditory culture, Sounds Modern presents a history ...
Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important o...
The problem of city soundscape has always been topic of a lot of researches and discu...
How did the technological ability to manipulate the sounds of weapons affect warfare in Europe durin...
New technologies profoundly change our sonic surroundings, the world's soundscape. However, research...
Sound ‘does’ things to places, to people and to time: it can affect change. This collection focuses ...
The doctoral thesis "Discourse and know-how on urban sonic environment planning in the 19th century"...
The purpose of this paper is to provide some historical perspective on the so-called loudness war. C...
This dissertation examines the intellectual and cultural reception of the phonograph at the turn of ...
© 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Sound transforme...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.Sound effects increased in nu...
International audienceCultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents...
Regularity. Continuity. Consistency. Perpetually. Mechanized sound has characteristics, which are fu...
In this chapter I develop the psychological underpinnings of environmental music towards an understa...
Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical...
Building upon recent innovations in the study of auditory culture, Sounds Modern presents a history ...
Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important o...
The problem of city soundscape has always been topic of a lot of researches and discu...
How did the technological ability to manipulate the sounds of weapons affect warfare in Europe durin...