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.
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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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 350 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Tables, Figures. Inside Technology (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2007037600 Type of material Book Personal name Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961-Main title Mechanical sound: technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century / Karin Bijsterveld. Published/Created Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008. Description xii, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780262026390 (hardcover: alk. paper) 0262026392 (hardcover: alk. paper) LC classification TD892. B548 2008 Contents Listening to technology--Infernal din, heavenly tunes: repertoires of dramatizing sound--A continuous buzz: the ongoing charge of industrial noise--Instruments of torture: traffic noise as uncivilized behavior--The art of noises: the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music--A wall of sound: the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors--A booming business: the search for a practical aircraft noise index--A sound history of technological culture. Subjects Noise pollution. Sound--Social aspects--History--20th century. Machinery--Noise. Noise control. Noise music--History and criticism. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-314) and index. Series Inside technology Dewey class no. 620.2 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn171287704 (OCoLC)171287704
