| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 350 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Inside technology
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Inside technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Listening to technology -- Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound -- A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise -- Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior -- The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music -- A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors -- A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index -- A sound history of technological culture. |
| Summary |
'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Noise pollution.
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Noise pollution. |
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Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Sound. |
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Social aspects. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Machinery -- Noise.
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Machinery -- Noise. |
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Noise control.
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Noise control. |
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Noise music.
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Noise music. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961- Mechanical sound. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262026390 0262026392 (DLC) 2007037600 (OCoLC)171287704 |
| ISBN |
9780262268547 (electronic book) |
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026226854X (electronic book) |
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9781435654945 (electronic book) |
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1435654943 (electronic book) |
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9780262026390 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262026392 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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