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The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity
James G Mansell
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Hardback. Series: Studies in Sensory History. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JHMC; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Sound transformed British life in the "age of noise" between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilization. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in aural form, with immense implications for the construction of the self. Tracing the ideas, feelings, and representations prompted by life in early twentieth century Britain, Mansell examines how and why sound shaped the self. He works at the crux of cultural and intellectual history, analyzing the meanings that were attached to different types of sound, ... Read more
Sound transformed British life in the "age of noise" between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the end of civilization. The noise was, as James G. Mansell shows, modernity itself, expressed in aural form, with immense implications for the construction of the self. Tracing the ideas, feelings, and representations prompted by life in early twentieth century Britain, Mansell examines how and why sound shaped the self. He works at the crux of cultural and intellectual history, analyzing the meanings that were attached to different types of sound, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Sensory History
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040672
SKU
V9780252040672
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About James G Mansell
James G. Mansell is an assistant professor of cultural studies at the University of Nottingham
Reviews for The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity
"In this intriguing study, James Mansell engages with interactions between noise, modernity, and the construction of the self in interwar Britain. . . . It is an exemplary piece of work."
Technology and Culture "James Mansell's remarkably clear, wonderfully detailed, even occasionally droll examination of the sensing self in industrial modernity makes a substantial, important contribution to historical sound ... Read more
Technology and Culture "James Mansell's remarkably clear, wonderfully detailed, even occasionally droll examination of the sensing self in industrial modernity makes a substantial, important contribution to historical sound ... Read more