Auditory Culture

A Listmania! list by Douglas Kahn
 
Victorian Soundscapes
1.  Victorian Soundscapes by John M. Picker
The list author says:
  "scholarly investigation into 19th C. England  literature, science and technology"
$45.00   Used & New from: $21.00

The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
2.  The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne
The list author says:
  "see my editorial review under "from the publisher""
$21.21   Used & New from: $13.00

Listening to Nineteenth-Century America
3.  Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith
The list author says:
  "the sounds of slavery, the civil war, the political rhetoric of North and South"
$25.00   Used & New from: $6.13
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations)
4.  The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) by Michael Bull
The list author says:
  "the first of several readers to appear on the subject in the next few years"
$30.17   Used & New from: $18.50

The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor
5.  The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor by Bruce R. Smith
The list author says:
  "sounds and voices during the time of Shakespeare"
$31.00   Used & New from: $18.88
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
6.  The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 by Emily Ann Thompson
The list author says:
  "indespensible: groundbreaking book on the history of acoustical architecture, technologies and science"
$40.42   Used & New from: $8.50
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

How Early America Sounded
7.  How Early America Sounded by Richard Cullen Rath
The list author says:
  "a new addition to the understanding of sound in American auditory culture"
Used & New from: $14.90

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Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies
8.  Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies by Adalaide (ed.) Morris
$28.78   Used & New from: $10.89
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
9.  Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science) by Friedrich A. Kittler
$21.80   Used & New from: $18.87

Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931¿1933
10.  Ezra Pound's Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931¿1933 by Margaret Fisher
The list author says:
  "scholarly unearthing of Pound's radiophonic works"
$38.00   Used & New from: $3.87

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
11.  Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts by Douglas Kahn
The list author says:
  "retailing my own wares"
Used & New from: $24.95
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde
12.  Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde by Douglas Kahn
$27.11   Used & New from: $22.79

Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication)
13.  Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Conduct and Communication) by Steven Feld
The list author says:
  "a classic in the field"
Used & New from: $13.28

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Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and  History of Literature)
14.  Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Theory and History of Literature) by Jacques Attali
The list author says:
  "provocative but thesis of music as fortune teller of history is a fiction"
$10.78   Used & New from: $6.90
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

The Soundscape
15.  The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer
The list author says:
  "formerly known as The Tuning of the World, an influential product of the 60s"
$11.53   Used & New from: $7.12
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
16.  Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England by Penelope Gouk
The list author says:
  "music and acoustics in natural magic"
$65.00   Used & New from: $52.58
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Experimental Sound and Radio
17.  Experimental Sound and Radio by Allen S. Weiss
$22.95   Used & New from: $14.24

Village Bells
18.  Village Bells by Alain Corbin
The list author says:
  "written by the French historian of the senses"
$83.50   Used & New from: $3.20

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture)
19.  Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture) by Michael Bull
$38.00   Used & New from: $20.44

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
20.  Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations by Ivan Leudar
$34.28   Used & New from: $30.28
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism
21.  Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism by Steven Connor
The list author says:
  "the topic is much more relevant than you think"
$81.27   Used & New from: $15.95
2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment
22.  Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment by Leigh Eric Schmidt
The list author says:
  "like Connor's book, scholarly and fascinating"
$57.50   Used & New from: $19.69

The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
23.  The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative by Felicia Miller Frank
$50.00   Used & New from: $40.00
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
24.  Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by James H. Johnson
$27.95   Used & New from: $14.72
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare)
25.  The Sound of Shakespeare (Accents on Shakespeare) by Wes Folkerth
The list author says:
  "read with Bruce Smith's book"
$36.95   Used & New from: $24.38

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