Mechanical sound : technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century - Bijsterveld, Karin, 1961- (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2008)
Listening to technology -- Infernal din, heavenly tunes : repertoires of dramatizing sound -- A continuous buzz : the ongoing charge of industrial noise -- Instruments of torture : traffic noise as uncivilized behavior -- The art of noises : the celebration and control of mechanical sound in music -- A wall of sound : the gramophone, the radio, and the noise of neighbors -- A booming business : the search for a practical aircraft noise index -- A sound history of technological culture.
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Keywords: Machinery -- Noise; Noise control; Noise music -- History and criticism; Noise pollution; Sound -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century