Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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ID5705702
AuthorsDouglas Gomery (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume99
Issue1
Pages337-338
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jas012
OpenAlexW2335568645
LanguageEN
Citations received4

During the twentieth century, sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound functioned as a means to exert social, cultural, and political power in unprecedented and unexpected ways. The fleeting nature of sound has long made it a difficult topic for historical study, but innovative scholars have recently begun to analyze the sonic traces of the past using innovative approaches. Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction investigates sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world. It shows how hearing and listening can inform people’s feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions. This collection contains twelve essays plus an introduction by the lead editor, who organized a conference in the fall of 2007 sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. The essays uncover the varying dimensions of sound in twentieth-century history. Together they connect a host of disparate concerns, despite the fact that the senior editor is a proponent of the work of Walter Benjamin

Acoustics · Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Feeling · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Reproduction · Sociology · Sound (geography · Sound recording and reproduction · Visual arts · Communication · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Psychology

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