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Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2004. Softcover. VG. Blue and green wraps with color illustration on front, gray and white lettering, ix, 500 pp, bw illustrations. "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 Age and deepens our understanding of the experience of change that characterized the era. Reverberation equations, sound meters, microphones, and acoustical tiles were deployed in places as varied as Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's office skyscrapers, and the soundstages of Hollywood. The control provided by these technologies, however, was applied in ways that denied the…
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- Title The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
- Author Emily Thompson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Repint
- Pages 510
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cambridge
- Date 2004-09-17
- ISBN 9780262701068 / 0262701065
- Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 8.03 x 0.81 in (22.99 x 20.40 x 2.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Acoustics and physics, Architectural acoustics
- Dewey Decimal Code 690.2
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