Mechanical sound
Subtitle: technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century
By: Karin Bijsterveld.
Series: Inside technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780262026390
Subjects: Noise pollution; Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century; Machinery -- Noise; Noise control; Noise music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to technology; title: Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound; title: A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise; title: Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior; title: The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music; title: A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors; title: A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index; title: A sound history of technological culture.