The age of noise in Britain : hearing modernity /
Sound transformed British life in the 'age of noise' between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanised society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilisation. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in aural form, with...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in sensory history
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| Summary: | Sound transformed British life in the 'age of noise' between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanised society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilisation. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in aural form, with immense implications for the construction of the self |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 232 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-225) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0252040678 0252082184 9780252040672 9780252082184 |