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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

Published on 2011-07-183298 Views

In this history of aural culture in early-twentieth-century America, Emily Thompson charts dramatic transformations in what people heard and how they listened. What they heard was a new kind of sound

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