"The Audible Past" explores the cultural origins of sound
reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave
birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so
ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar
and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural
precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point
into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the
constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound"
and "not sound." In "The Audible Past, "this history crisscrosses
the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and
copies, nature and culture, and life and death.
Blending cultural studies and the history of communication
technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a
historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and
inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers,
doctors and patients, deaf children and their teachers,
professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. "The
Audible Past "tracks the connections between the history of sound
and the defining features of modernity: from developments in
medicine, physics, and philosophy to the tumultuous shifts of
industrial capitalism, colonialism, urbanization, modern
technology, and the rise of a new middle class.
A provocative history of sound, "The Audible Past" challenges
theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the
speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and
static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural
studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and
the history of technology.
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