Making Noise in The Roaring ’Twenties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11664229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Thompson (0009-0009-6178-1393, Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 91-110 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2015.37.4.91 |
| OpenAlex | W2329463928 |
| Language | EN |
The Internet offers an unprecedented bounty of historic sound recordings, and the opportunity to listen in on the past has never been greater. But online sound archives also present new challenges. Public history websites must recover the meaning of sound as well as sound itself, and thereby engender a historicized mode of listening that tunes modern ears to the pitch of the past. The Roaring ’Twenties website attempts this via an interactive multimedia environment of sounds, images, and texts, recreating for its listeners the sonic culture of New York City circa 1929, a place and time defined by its din
Acoustics · Active listening · Art · Human–computer interaction · Meaning (existential · Mode (computer interface · Noise (video · Sociology · Sound (geography · The Internet · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |