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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Sterne, Jonathan

Description: The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound." In The Audible Past, this history crisscrosses the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and copies, nature and culture, life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through an historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave-robbers, doctors and patients, Deaf children and their teachers, professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. The Audible Past tracks the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity: from developments in medicine, physics, and philosophy to the tumultuous shifts of industrial capitalism, colonialism, urbanization, modern technology, and the rise of a new middle class. A provocative history of sound, The Audible Past challenges theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and the history of technology.

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EAN: 9780822330134

UPC: 9780822330134

ISBN: 9780822330134

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Book Title: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reprod

Item Length: 23.4 cm

Item Weight: 0.68 kg

Publisher: Duke University Press

Publication Year: 2003

Subject: Engineering & Technology

Item Height: 235 mm

Number of Pages: 472 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

Type: Textbook

Author: Jonathan Sterne

Item Width: 156 mm

Format: Paperback

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