Friday, August 27, 2004

Selected Bibliography Of Works in Aural History

Thompson, Emily. “The Soundscape of Modernity Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933.” MIT World (September 26, 2002)

Selected Bibliography of Works in Aural History

Attali, Jaques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. 1977; Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press, 1985.

Corbin, Alain. Village Bells: Sound and Meaning in the 19th Century French Countryside. 1994; NY: Colombia Univ. Press, 1998.

Douglas, Susan. Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. NY: Times Books, 1999.

Johnson, James. Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1995.

Kahn, Douglas. Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.

Picker, John. "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise," Victorian Studies 42 (Spring 1999/2000): 427-453.

Schafer, R. Murray. The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Turning of the World. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1994.

Schmidt, Leigh. Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.

Smith, Bruce. The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000.

Smith, Mark. "Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America," Journal of the Historical Society 1 (Spring 2000): 65-99.

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Raleigh-Durham: Duke Univ. Press, Forthcoming January 2003.

Thompson, Emily. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002.

Truax, Barry. Acoustic Communication. 2d. ed. Westport, CT.: Ablex, 2001.

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