Talking and Listening edited Essays on the history of sound

Talking and Listening edited Essays on the history of sound

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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...

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Main Author: Damousi, Joy (auth)
Other Authors: Deacon, Desley (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Canberra ANU Press 2007
Subjects:
Communication studies
australia
social aspects
history
sounds
oral communication
Elocution
Modernity
Sound film
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Summary: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 to auditory perception'. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin's virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavours; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (187 p.)
ISBN:OAPEN_459756
Access:Open Access

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