Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.

Main entry:

Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-

Title & Author:

Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.

Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2011.

Description:

912 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bang (a beginning) -- Round one : everywhere -- Round two : everywhen, everyone, Round three : everyhow -- Endnotes -- Soundplates, in fine -- Reverb/Index.

Summary:

Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, and daybooks of physicists, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel.

ISBN:

9781935408123 (alk. paper)
1935408127 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Noise pollution History.
Noise Psychological aspects.
Noise in literature.
Sounds Psychological aspects.
Sound Social aspects.
Sound History.
Pollution par le bruit Histoire.
Bruit dans la littérature.
Bruits naturels Aspect psychologique.
Noise pollution.
Sound.
Geräusch
Musik
Kultur
Psychologie
Hören.
Lärmbelastung.
Ton.
Gesellschaft.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276073
Call No.: BIB 210614
Status: Available

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