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Condition
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ISBN
9780822330134
Book Title
Audible Past : Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Item Length
9.2in
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Year
2003
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1in
Author
Jonathan Sterne
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Music, Business & Economics, Social Science
Topic
Discography & Buyer's Guides, Recording & Reproduction, General, Popular Culture, History, Industries / Entertainment
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Number of Pages
472 Pages

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Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
082233013x
ISBN-13
9780822330134
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038701529

Product Key Features

Book Title
Audible Past : Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Author
Jonathan Sterne
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Discography & Buyer's Guides, Recording & Reproduction, General, Popular Culture, History, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Music, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
472 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
24 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tk7881.4.S733 2002
Reviews
"Jonathan Sterne's The Audible Past has come along to set the record straight on the cultural origins of sounds and systems, on machines and the mechanisms of culture. He's come here to give us the lowdown on how the technology evolved. Think of the book as a kind of sonic map of the origins of the way we listen to things around us, as a primer for the sonically perplexed."-Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, "Jonathan Sterne's The Audible Past boldly stakes out a largely neglected but important topic, the history of sound in modern life."--John Durham Peters, author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, “Jonathan Sterne’s The Audible Past boldly stakes out a largely neglected but important topic, the history of sound in modern life.�-John Durham Peters, author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, “Jonathan Sterne confronts what is certainly the most challenging topic in the study of auditory culture-what happened when modern technologies came crashing into ways of sound making, communicating and listening-with outstanding results. Through disciplined arguments bolstered by plenty of original research and with refreshing critiques of many cherished notions, The Audible Past forms a basis from which to address central questions of communication studies, musicology and music history, film sound and media studies, perception and culture, all those areas where listening and sound impinge upon cultural history and theory.�-Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, "Jonathan Sterne's The Audible Past boldly stakes out a largely neglected but important topic, the history of sound in modern life."-John Durham Peters, author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, "[M]eticulously researched. . . . One of the book's most significant achievements is that it revisits a fairly well-worn territory, finds a new and noteworthy story to tell about that territory, and manages to open up a sizable vein of important, yet unexplored, questions about that territory for future research." - Gilbert B. Rodman, Cultural Studies, "Jonathan Sterne confronts what is certainly the most challenging topic in the study of auditory culture--what happened when modern technologies came crashing into ways of sound making, communicating and listening--with outstanding results. Through disciplined arguments bolstered by plenty of original research and with refreshing critiques of many cherished notions, The Audible Past forms a basis from which to address central questions of communication studies, musicology and music history, film sound and media studies, perception and culture, all those areas where listening and sound impinge upon cultural history and theory."--Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, �Jonathan Sterne’s The Audible Past has come along to set the record straight on the cultural origins of sounds and systems, on machines and the mechanisms of culture. He’s come here to give us the lowdown on how the technology evolved. Think of the book as a kind of sonic map of the origins of the way we listen to things around us, as a primer for the sonically perplexed.�-Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, "Jonathan Sterne confronts what is certainly the most challenging topic in the study of auditory culture-what happened when modern technologies came crashing into ways of sound making, communicating and listening-with outstanding results. Through disciplined arguments bolstered by plenty of original research and with refreshing critiques of many cherished notions, The Audible Past forms a basis from which to address central questions of communication studies, musicology and music history, film sound and media studies, perception and culture, all those areas where listening and sound impinge upon cultural history and theory."-Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, "[Sterne's] prose moves gracefully and nimbly beneath the academic robes. . . and the topic is so intimately connected to the way we experience the world around us that it can't help resonating. . . . Forget what you think you know about ours being a visual culture, in which sight is the privileged sense." - Ruth Walker, Christian Science Monitor, "[E]xcellent. . . . [A] critical and long-overdue intervention. . . . [B]rilliant. . . . Sterne's research is wide ranging and impressive. . . . This is a book that all scholars of sound should read, to overturn some of our neat assumptions about sound and its technological and cultural manifestations and to clear the ground for new approaches." - Michele Hilmes, American Quarterly, "Jonathan Sterne's The Audible Past has come along to set the record straight on the cultural origins of sounds and systems, on machines and the mechanisms of culture. He's come here to give us the lowdown on how the technology evolved. Think of the book as a kind of sonic map of the origins of the way we listen to things around us, as a primer for the sonically perplexed."--Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, "[A] stimulating and provocative work. . . . Sterne excels as a writer. . . . [T]his book will amply reward readers who want a broader perspective on the culture of sound. Sterne's book will no doubt reach the wide readership it deserves." - David Hochfelder, Business History Review, "[P]rovocative. . . . Sterne breaks new ground, focusing on the need to understand sound and listening as issues of history." - Leon Botstein, Los Angeles Times
Table of Content
List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations for Archival and Other Historical Materials Cited xi Acknowledgments xiii Hello! 1 1. Machines to Hear for Them 31 2. Techniques of Listening 87 3. Audible Technique and Media 137 4. Plastic Aurality: Technologies into Media 179 5. The Social Genesis of Sound Fidelity 215 6. A Resonant Tomb 287 Conclusion: Audible Futures 335 Notes 353 Bibliography 415 Index 437
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2002-009196
Dewey Decimal
621.389/3/09
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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