Talking and listening in the age of modernity : essays on the history of sound / edited by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon.
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 Corbinʼs injunction that historians ʻcan no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Canberra :
ANU E Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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 Corbinʼs injunction that historians ʻcan no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perceptionʼ. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakinʼs 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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 192131348X 9781921313486 1921313471 9781921313479 |