Mechanical Sound : Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
- Inside Technology Series .
- Inside Technology Series .
Intro -- Preface -- 1 Listening to Technology -- 2 Infernal Din, Heavenly Tunes: Repertoires of Dramatizing Sound -- 3 A Continuous Buzz: The Ongoing Charge of Industrial Noise -- 4 Instruments of Torture: Traffic Noise as Uncivilized Behavior -- 5 The Art of Noises: The Celebration and Control of Mechanical Sound in Music -- 6 A Wall of Sound: The Gramophone, the Radio, and the Noise of Neighbors -- 7 A Booming Business: The Search for a Practical Aircraft Noise Index -- 8 A Sound History of Technological Culture -- Notes -- References -- Series List -- Index.
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.