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Sound and Noise : A Listener's Guide to Everyday Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (409 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780228004493
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sound and NoiseDDC classification:
  • 534
LOC classification:
  • QC225.7 .E678 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- SOUND AND NOISE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Preface in Mid-Pandemic -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Life without Earlids -- 2 Sound Science -- 3 Studying Sound -- 4 Thunder, Rooster, Hammer, Hum -- 5 Why Noise Annoys -- 6 The Hearing Body -- 7 The Mind's Ear -- 8 Born Loud -- 9 Growing Up Loud -- 10 Working with Noise -- 11 Quiet, Please: Noise Abatement -- 12 Power and Danger -- 13 The Cacophony of the Commons -- 14 Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Noise and the Law -- 15 Hearing and Healing: Soundscapes in Health Care -- 16 Creating a Culture of Listening -- 17 Tuning a Future -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: A timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it, Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives us the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define our daily lives. This is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impact both individuals and communities.
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Cover -- SOUND AND NOISE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Preface in Mid-Pandemic -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Life without Earlids -- 2 Sound Science -- 3 Studying Sound -- 4 Thunder, Rooster, Hammer, Hum -- 5 Why Noise Annoys -- 6 The Hearing Body -- 7 The Mind's Ear -- 8 Born Loud -- 9 Growing Up Loud -- 10 Working with Noise -- 11 Quiet, Please: Noise Abatement -- 12 Power and Danger -- 13 The Cacophony of the Commons -- 14 Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Noise and the Law -- 15 Hearing and Healing: Soundscapes in Health Care -- 16 Creating a Culture of Listening -- 17 Tuning a Future -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A timely evaluation of the noise that surrounds us, how we hear it, and what we can do about it, Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives us the impetus and the tools to understand the sounds and noise that define our daily lives. This is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of how auditory stimuli impact both individuals and communities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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