Noise by David Hendy
A Human History of Sound and Listening
This wide-ranging cultural history traces how people have made, managed, and understood sound from antiquity to the present, showing that what counts as ‘noise’ is historically and socially constructed; technologies such as the horn, bell, steam engine, telegraph, radio and recording have continually reshaped everyday soundscapes, listening habits and power relations, while urbanization, warfare and mass communication intensified disputes over public and private sound. The book blends case studies, archival evidence and theory to argue that control of sound is a form of social control and that contemporary anxieties about noise reflect long-standing tensions between technological possibilities, civic regulation and human experience of hearing.
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