Soundscape of Modernity Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

Name: Soundscape of Modernity Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
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ISBN: 9780262701068

ISBN-10: 0262701065

ISBN-13: 9780262701068

Edition: 2004

Authors: Emily Thompson

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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…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 510
Size: 8.19" wide x 9.13" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 2.992

Emily Thompson is a Professor of History at Princeton University.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Sound, Modernity, and History



The Origins of Modern Acoustics



The New Acoustics, 1900-1933



Noise and Modern Culture, 1900-1933



Acoustical Materials and Modern Architecture, 1900-1933



Electroacoustics and Modern Sound, 1900-1933



Conclusion: Rockefeller Center and the End of an Era


Coda


Notes


Bibliography


Index