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- catalog abstract "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, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a 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.".
- catalog contributor b12785548.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-436) and index.".
- catalog description "Machines to hear for them -- Techniques of listening -- Audible technique and media -- Plastic aurality: technologies into media -- The social genesis of sound fidelity -- A resonant tomb -- Conclusion: Audible futures.".
- catalog 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, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a 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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 450 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Audible past.".
- catalog identifier "0822330040 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "082233013X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Audible past.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Audible past.".
- catalog subject "621.389/3/09 21".
- catalog subject "Popular culture.".
- catalog subject "Sound Recording and reproducing History.".
- catalog subject "Sound in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Sound recording industry Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sound recordings Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "TK7881.4 .S733 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machines to hear for them -- Techniques of listening -- Audible technique and media -- Plastic aurality: technologies into media -- The social genesis of sound fidelity -- A resonant tomb -- Conclusion: Audible futures.".
- catalog title "The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction / Jonathan Sterne.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".