James G. Mansell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040672
- eISBN:
- 9780252099113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040672.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The conclusion to the book argues that sound is an affective resource for the exercise of power. Investing sound with meaning and attuning listeners to these meanings was part of the contested ...
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The conclusion to the book argues that sound is an affective resource for the exercise of power. Investing sound with meaning and attuning listeners to these meanings was part of the contested shaping of social life in early twentieth-century Britain. Sound became an important means to make sense of modernity and its progress. However, because competing experts had different interpretations of what modernity should sound like, they advanced different and sometimes competing “ways of hearing” noise.Less
The conclusion to the book argues that sound is an affective resource for the exercise of power. Investing sound with meaning and attuning listeners to these meanings was part of the contested shaping of social life in early twentieth-century Britain. Sound became an important means to make sense of modernity and its progress. However, because competing experts had different interpretations of what modernity should sound like, they advanced different and sometimes competing “ways of hearing” noise.
