Aimée Boutin, City of Noise

City of Noise is doubtlessly a groundbreaking contribution to the study of historical urban soundscapes in modern cities. The book takes significant steps towards understanding the complex relationship between, on one hand, the different sound practices that take place in the city, and, on the other, the economic and cultural struggles in which different urban population groups took part. Boutin thus makes a valuable contribution towards understanding the ways in which sound practice and attitudes towards noise are involved in the production of space, the construction of identities, and the negotiation of class structures in the nineteenth-century city. In so doing, this study joins the ranks of John Picker, Karin Bijsterveld, David Hendy, and Ian Biddle and Kirsten Gibson 1 . It is, however, rather unique in that it draws mainly, though not only, on literary studies

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