The Audible Past : Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past : Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

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Abstract (English)

"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." -- Publisher's webiste.

Types:	Monographs
All Contributors:	Sterne, Jonathan (Author)
Dossier:	700 - ART ET TECHNOLOGIE / ART AND TECHNOLOGY
Collation:	xvi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:	082233013X
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Keywords:	TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; SOUND
Copyright Statement:	Duke University Press
Notes:	Bibliography : pages 415-436. Index : pages 437-450.
Deposited by:	Artexte Catalogueur
Date Deposited:	14 Sep 2022 19:34
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2022 19:34
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/34312

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