Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity Essays on the history of sound

• Other Authors: Damousi, Joy (Editor), Deacon, Desley (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: ANU Press 2007
• Subjects: Music; Music recording & reproduction
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining t...