"Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age" critically
analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the
radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounds are used to
persuade in subtle ways. Greg Goodale explains how and to what
effect sounds can be "read" like an aural text, demonstrating this
method by examining important audio cues such as dialect, pausing,
and accent in presidential recordings at the turn of the twentieth
century. Goodale also shows how clocks, locomotives, and machinery
are utilized in film and literature to represent frustration and
anxiety about modernity, and how race and other forms of identity
came to be represented by sound during the interwar period. In
highlighting common sounds of industry and war in popular media,
"Sonic Persuasion" also demonstrates how programming producers and
governmental agencies employed sound to evoke a sense of fear in
listeners. Goodale provides important links to other senses,
especially the visual, to give fuller meaning to interpretations of
identity, culture, and history in sound.
General
Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in Sensory History |
Release date: |
March 2011 |
First published: |
March 2011 |
Authors: |
Greg Goodale
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
208 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-252-03604-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Reference & Interdisciplinary >
Communication studies >
General
|
LSN: |
0-252-03604-2 |
Barcode: |
9780252036040 |
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