Main entry:

Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961-

Title & Author:

Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century / Karin Bijsterveld.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Inside technology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-314) and index.
Listening to technology -- Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound -- A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise -- Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior -- The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music -- A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors -- A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index -- A sound history of technological culture.
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Summary:

'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262026390 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262026392 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Noise pollution.
Sound Social aspects History 20th century.
Machinery Noise.
Noise control.
Noise music History and criticism.
Pollution par le bruit.
Machines Bruit.
Bruit Lutte contre.
Noise (Musique) Histoire et critique.
noise pollution.
noise control.
77.42 auditive perception.
Noise music.
Geluid.
Lawaai.
Machines.
Lawaaibestrijding.
Techniek.
Sociale aspecten.
Buller.
Ljud sociala aspekter historia 1900-talet.
Bullerbekämpning.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Noise music.
Musique bruitiste.

Added entries:

Inside technology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258673
Call No.: BIB 189464
Status: Available