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Title Talking and listening in the age of modernity : essays on the history of sound / editor, Desley Deacon ; editor, Joy Damousi.

Imprint Canberra : ANU E Press, 2007.

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Note Includes index.
Contents A 'roaring decade': listening to the Australian gold-fields / Diane Collins -- A complex kind of training: cities, technologies and sound in jazz-age Europe / James Donald -- Speech, children and the federation movement / Alan Atkinson -- Sounds of history: oratory and the fantasy of male power / Marilyn Lake -- Hunting the wild reciter: elocution and the art of recitation / Peter Kirkpatrick -- World English? how an australian invented 'good American speech' / Desley Deacon -- 'The Australian has a lazy way of talking': Australian character and accent, 1920s-1940s / Joy Damousi -- Towards a history of the Australian accent / Bruce Moore -- Voice, power and modernity / Bruce Johnson -- Modernity, intimacy and early Australian commercial radio / Bridget Griffen-Foley -- Talking salvation for the silent majority: projecting new possibilities of modernity in the Australian cinema, 1929-1933 / Brian Yecies.
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 Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian gold-fields to Alfred Deakin's 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's description.
Language English.
Subject Sounds.
Auditory perception -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Oral communication -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Communication orale -- Aspect social -- Australie.
Perception auditive -- Aspect social -- Australie.
Bruits naturels.
MUSIC -- General.
Oral communication -- Social aspects
Sounds
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
Acoustics & Sound.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Physics.
Added Author Deacon, Desley.
Damousi, Joy, 1961-
Other Form: Print version: Talking and listening in the age of modernity : essays on the history of sound. Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, ©2007 9781921313479
ISBN 9781921313486 (electronic bk.)
192131348X (electronic bk.)
1921313471
9781921313479
Standard No. NZ1 11535100
AU@ 000042262046
AU@ 000051590714
AU@ 000058146407
AU@ 000060580924
GBVCP 1008651079

 
    
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