The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in i
| Title | : | The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082233013X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-03-13 |
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Editorial : "Sterne’s prose moves gracefully and nimbly beneath the academic robesand the topic is so intimately connected to the way we experience the world around us that it can’t help resonating. Forget what you think you know about ours being a visual culture, in which sight is the privileged sense." - Ruth Walker, Christian Science Monitor
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound." In The Audible Past, this history crisscrosses the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and copies, nature and culture, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers, doctors and patients, deaf children and
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