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Listening to British Nature - Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 (Hardcover)
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Listening to British Nature - Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 (Hardcover)
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Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life,
1914-1945 reveals for the first time how the sounds and rhythms of
the natural world were listened to, interpreted and used amid the
pressures of early twentieth century life. The book argues that
despite and sometimes because of the chaos of wartime and the
struggle to recover, nature's voices were drawn close to provide
security and engender optimism. Nature's sonic presences were not
obliterated by machine age noise, the advent of radio broadcasting
or the rush of the urban everyday, rather they came to complement
and provide alternatives to modern modes of living. This book
examines how trench warfare demanded the creation of new listening
cultures to understand danger and to imagine survival. It tells of
the therapeutic communities who made use of nature's quietude and
the rhythms of rural work to restore shell-shocked soldiers, and of
ramblers who sought to immerse themselves in the sensualities of
the outdoors. It reveals how home-front listening during the Blitz
was punctuated by birdsong, broadcast by the BBC. To listen to
nature during this period was to cultivate an intimate connection
with its energies and to sense an enduring order and beauty that
could be taken into the future. Listening to nature was a way of
being modern.
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