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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Jonathan Sterne
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Description for The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Paperback. Suitable for those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the musicology, and the history of technology, this book explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. Num Pages: 472 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; TJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 750. Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. 448 pages, 48 illustrations. Explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. This book describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. It is of interest to those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, musicology, and the history of technology. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; TJK. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight: 734.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822330134
SKU
V9780822330134
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About Jonathan Sterne
Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Communication and the Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He writes about media, technology, and the politics of culture, and is codirector of the online magazine Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life.
Reviews for The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
"[Sterne’s] prose moves gracefully and nimbly beneath the academic robes. . . and 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 ... Read more