Sonic Persuasion

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252077951

Reading Sound in the Recorded Age

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By Greg Goodale
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List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Reading Sound 1 2. Fitting Sounds 16 3. Machine Mouth 47 4. The Race of Sound 76 5. Sounds of War 106 6. On Sound Criticism 132 Notes 155 Index 183

''Compelling and imaginative case studies--air-raid sirens, Warner Brothers cartoons, and clocks--ground this sonic investigation, but just as important is Goodale's work in interpreting sounds as opposed to merely placing them in a larger historical narrative. A major contribution to the study of music, communications, sound, and rhetoric.''--John M. Picker, author of Victorian Soundscapes

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