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The MIT Press, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1600grams, ISBN:9780262201384
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 Hardcover - 2002
by Emily Ann Thompson; Emily Thompson
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- Title The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
- Author Emily Ann Thompson; Emily Thompson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 500
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press (MA), Cambridge
- Date April 7, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780262201384 / 0262201380
- Weight 3.26 lbs (1.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 8.36 x 1.32 in (23.57 x 21.23 x 3.35 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Music - Acoustics and physics, Architectural acoustics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001044533
- Dewey Decimal Code 690.2
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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 particularity of place, and the diverse spaces of modern America began to sound alike as a universal new sound predominated. Although this sound--clear,…
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