Title:
Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.
Author:
Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2011.
Call Number:
TD892 .S398 2011
Abstract:
Drawing upon such diverse sources as the archives of antinoise activists and radio advertisers, catalogs of fireworks and dental drills, and daybooks of physicists, travel diaries and civil defense pamphlets, Schwartz traces the process by which noise today has become as powerfully metaphorical as the original Babel.
ISBN:
9781935408123
Physical Description:
912 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Bang (a beginning) -- Round one : everywhere -- Round two : everywhen, everyone, Round three : everyhow -- Endnotes -- Soundplates, in fine -- Reverb/Index.
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