| Description |
xv, 382 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 30.The Search for Silence |
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Machine generated contents note: I.Prehistoric Voiceprints -- 1.Echoes in the Dark -- 2.The Beat of Drams -- 3.The Singing Wilderness -- 4.A Ritual Soundscape -- 5.The Rise of the Shamans -- II.The Age of Oratory -- 6.Epic Tales -- 7.Persuasion -- 8.Babble: The Noisy, Everyday World of Ancient Rome -- 9.The Roaring Crowd -- 10.The Ecstatic Underground -- III.Sounds of the Spirit and of Satan -- 11.The Bells -- 12.Tuning the Body -- 13.Heavenly Sounds -- 14.Carnival -- 15.Restraint -- IV.Power and Revolt -- 16.Colonists -- 17.Shutting In -- 18.Master and Servant -- 19.Slavery and Rebellion -- 20.Revolution and War -- V.The Rise of the Machines -- 21.The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution -- 22.The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly -- 23.The New Art of Listening -- 24.Capturing Sound -- 25.Life in the City -- VI.The Amplified Age -- 26.Shell Shock -- 27.Radio Everywhere! -- 28.Music While You Shop, Music While You Work -- 29.An Ever Noisier World -- |
| Summary |
Explores the role of sound - and of listening - in 100,000 years of human history. This book is a chance for readers to discover more of the personal and social background to those stories featured in the radio series. It reveals changes in how we have understood our fellow human humans and the world around us |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-365) and index |
| Subject |
Listening -- History.
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Noise pollution -- History.
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Noise pollution.
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Social history.
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Noise -- Psychological aspects.
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Sound -- History.
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Sound -- Social aspects -- History.
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Sounds -- Psychological aspects.
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Noise.
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| LC no. |
2013376823 |
| ISBN |
1781250898 (hbk.) |
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1847659446 (ebook) |
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9781781250891 (hbk.) |
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9781847659446 (ebook) |
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(ebook |
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